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The Drug Interdiction / Narcotics topic covers all aspects of drug enforcement, from highway or border interdiction to undercover infiltration into gangs or drug cartels. From marijuana and cocaine to prescription pills and heroin, this topic covers it all.

Public safety leaders need to evaluate the impact of executive orders and policy pronouncements on their departments and communities
Trump’s Executive Order expands law enforcement’s authority, granting access to new tools and resources for countering cartel-driven narcotics operations
Recruitment, the opioid epidemic, climate change and mental health challenges are just as significant for police officers now as they were in the heat of the campaign
The program aims for nurses to work alongside police officers to assist individuals struggling with substance use disorders and mental health
Funds to combat violent crime and opioid abuse may also help agencies fund communications technology
An advisory council suggested reducing the time requirement for a recruit to not have consumed marijuana within 12 months and three years for drugs
Law enforcement can stay ahead of evolving criminal tactics through strategic investments in training and resources
With the benefit of sobriety and helping others, a recovering addict forges new relationships with law enforcement
Solving the drug crisis may take unlikely allies working together
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, who was the police chief for 6 years, was fishing for lobster when she saw a microwave-sized bag packed with $1M worth of cocaine
Panelists will review the training required for officers to manage custody transitions, as well as highlight strategies to improve safety during this process
DUI
UC San Diego scientists evaluate how accurate law-enforcement administered field sobriety tests are at measuring cannabis exposure and impairment
The impact of Barry Bonds, baseball player, on digital forensics
The bill presumes disabling or fatal infectious diseases were suffered in the line of duty as a result of injury due to uncapped needles
The combination of LPR and traffic data management systems can reduce the traffic enforcement workload for understaffed police departments
An undercover officer who was part of the investigation with a narcotics team was hospitalized after consuming a drink at the bar
AcuDetox and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing are showing value in one Colorado county
The companies openly advertised the chemicals on social media platforms and shipped them surreptitiously to buyers, said Attorney General Merrick Garland
“We can’t make the problem totally go away, but we want to help local law enforcement in every way that we can”
K-9
K-9 Bosco, who has been on the job for 6 months, keyed in on the soda machine and found 15 pounds of heroin, a kilogram of fentanyl and a rifle inside
The deputy saw a torn open baggie on the suspect’s lap with “small white flakes consistent with cocaine scattered across his shorts and on his face and beard”
“I’m proud of the CHP and CalGuard’s lifesaving efforts to shut down the Tenderloin’s poison pipeline and hold drug traffickers accountable,” Gov. Newsom said
“It is incredible the amount of drugs being seized at the border.”
LEOs interviewed said the law decriminalizing small amounts of heroin and other street drugs is ineffective and they believe it negatively affects public safety
The DEA had been investigating two men for suspected drug trafficking and installed a tracking device on their car
The other driver involved in the crash had taken a video of the suspect earlier; deputies gave the suspect time to explain before a K-9 found a bag with drugs
The trooper intercepted 4 kilos worth of fentanyl after pulling over a driver for erratic driving and crossing the center line multiple times
Under the law, the sale of drug paraphernalia, such as glass tubes for smoking fentanyl, is a civil infraction. But possession is not banned
The bipartisan agreement would avoid making the state the second in the U.S. to decriminalize the possession of controlled substances
People with small amounts of methamphetamine, heroin and LSD are subject to non-criminal violations and given the choice to call a statewide hotline or pay a $100 fine
Xylazine is an animal tranquilizer that can cause human tissue to rot and lead to amputations
The career criminal with 58 felony convictions threatened law enforcement and bail bondsmen in a tense standoff that ended in gunfire