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History of IDEC: (Back to Top)

IDEC was established in 1983 in an effort to bring together high-level drug law enforcement officials from throughout the Western Hemisphere. The principal purpose of the conference is to share drug-related information and to develop a coordinated approach to law enforcement efforts against international drug traffickers. Since its inception, IDEC has grown from a regional to a global forum, with over 100 countries in attendance.

 

Organization: (Back to Top)

Presidency /Co-Presidency: The President is elected annually and presides over the next conference. The country in which the conference convenes is determined by the President of the conference. The Administrator of DEA is the permanent Co-President of the conference.

Secretary: A Secretary for the conference is elected at the beginning of the conference and is responsible for preparing the Conference Report.

Permanent Secretariat: DEA, through the Office of International Programs (OI), functions as the permanent Secretariat.

Member Country delegations at each IDEC consist of one or two senior drug law enforcement officials who are accompanied by the DEA
Country Attaché.

Representatives from drug law enforcement agencies of countries that are not members of IDEC are invited as observers.

 

Working Groups: (Back to Top)

The majority of the IDEC agenda is devoted to working group sessions where senior-level drug law enforcement officials identify common targets based on intelligence and coordinate regional and global attacks on these targets.

At each year’s IDEC, participants establish productive working relationships with their counterparts. Participants each year comment that IDEC is the most useful conference on drug-related matters, since it deals with implementation of coordinated and practical strategies. The goal is to destroy the command and control aspects of international drug trafficking and money laundering organizations.

IDEC Sites 1983-2013: (Back to Top)

IDEC I:(1983) Panama City, Panama
 IDEC II: (1984) Brasilia, Brazil
 IDEC III: (1985) Santiago, Chile
 IDEC IV: (1986) Buenos Aires, Argentina
IDEC V: (1987) Brasilia, Brazil
 IDEC VI: (1988) Guatemala City, Guatemala
 IDEC VII: (1989) Miami, Florida
 IDEC VIII: (1990) Mexico City, Mexico
 IDEC IX: (1991) Cartagena, Colombia - Control of Chemicals and Money Laundering
 IDEC X: (1992) Santa Cruz, Bolivia - General Aviation and its Use by Traffickers
 IDEC XI: (1993) Bariloche, Argentina -Targeting Cocaine
 IDEC XII: (1994) Quito, Ecuador - Targeting Cocaine Organizations, Building on IDEC XI
 IDEC XIII: (1995) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Coordinated Operations Targeting Major Traffickers
 IDEC XIV: (1996) Mexico City Mexico -Targeting Emerging Drug Trafficking Organizations
 IDEC XV: (1997) Nassau, The Bahamas -Targeting the Command and Control of Major DrugTrafficking Organizations
 IDEC XVI: (1998) San Jose, Costa Rica -Targeting Major Traffickers and their Organizations
 IDEC XVII: (1999) Washington, D.C. USA - Identifying and Attacking Major Trafficking Organizations
 IDEC XVIII: (2000) Buenos Aires, Argentina - Multi-Regional Investigations and Operations Targeting Major Traffickers
 IDEC XIX: (2001) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – Multi-Regional Investigations and Operations Targeting Major Traffickers and Their Organizations
 IDEC XX: (2002) Santa Cruz, Bolivia – Combating Major International Drug Trafficking Organizations through Global Cooperation and Partnership
 IDEC XXI: (2003) Panama City, Panama - International Counter Narcotics and Terrorism
 IDEC XXII: (2004) Lima, Peru – Combating International Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering
 IDEC XXIII: (2005) Santiago, Chile - Expanding Global Partnerships to Destroy Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Organizations
 IDEC XXIV: (2006) Montreal, Canada - Targeting Drug Trafficking Money Laundering, and Diversion of Chemicals on a Global Level
IDEC XXV: (2007) Madrid, Spain – Celebrating 25 Years of Cooperation
IDEC XXVI:(2008) Istanbul, Turkey - Drug Law Enforcement in a Changing World
IDEC XXVII: (2010) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Targeting the Facilitators
IDEC XXVIII : (2011) Cancun, Mexico – United Front Against Organized Crime
IDEC XXIX:(2012) Denpasar, Indonesia – Enhancing the Spirit of International Partnership to Achieve the Greatest Success on Fighting Drug Crimes
IDEC XXX: (2013) Russia – Agenda TBD

 

Current Members and Observers (Back to Top)

(As of December 2011)

Member Countries and Territories (78):

Afghanistan	Grenada	Philippines
Antigua and Barbuda	Guatemala	Poland
Argentina	Guyana	Republic of Korea
Aruba	Honduras	Republic of Serbia
Australia	India	Russia
Bahamas	Indonesia	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Barbados	Ireland	Saint Lucia
Belize	Israel	Saint Maarten
Bolivia	Italy	Saint Vincent
Bonaire**	Jamaica	Saudi Arabia
Brazil	Jordan	Singapore
Bulgaria	Latvia	South Africa
Canada	Macedonia	Spain
Chile	Malaysia	Suriname
Colombia	Mexico	Sweden
Costa Rica	Montenegro	Tajikistan
Croatia	Montserrat *	Thailand
Curacao	Morocco	Togo
Cyprus	Netherlands	Trinidad and Tobago
Denmark	New Zealand	Turkey
Dominica	Nicaragua	Turks and Caicos*
Dominican Republic	Nigeria	United Arab Emirates
Ecuador	Pakistan	United Kingdom
El Salvador	Panama	United States
Ghana	Paraguay	Uruguay
Greece	Peru	Vietnam

Observer Countries and Territories (31):(Back to Top)

Albania	Hong Kong SAR ***	Portugal
Belgium	Japan	Puerto Rico****
Benin	Kazakhstan	Qatar
Cambodia	Kenya	Romania
Cameroon	Kuwait	Sierra Leone
Cape Verde	Kyrgyz Republic	Slovenia
China	Lithuania	Switzerland
Democratic Republic of Timor Leste	Luxembourg	Tanzania
Egypt	Macau SAR ***	Ukraine
Gabon	Norway	Uzbekistan
Germany

=>new members
First time at IDEC
* British Territory
** Special Municipality of the Netherlands Proper
*** Special Administrative Region to China
**** US Territory

 

 

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IDEC 2011 Press Release

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