History
 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 91 countries in attendance at IDEC XXVI.
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 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
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
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Members
Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba***
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
France
Ghana
Greece
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Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
India
Indonesia
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Jordan
Latvia
Liberia
Macedonia
Malaysia
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles***
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
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Philippines
Poland
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
St. Christopher and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Suriname
Sweden
Tajikistan
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Turks and Caicos*
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Vietnam
Venezuela
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Observers
Anguilla*
Austria
Belgium
British Virgin Islands *
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
China
Cyprus
Egypt
Germany
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Hong Kong****
Ireland
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Lithuania
Luxemborg
Montenegro
Montserrat *
Norway
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Portugal
Puerto Rico **
Romania
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
U.S. Virgin Islands **
Uzbekistan
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New Members-bold font
First time at IDEC -bold italicized
* British Territory
** U.S. Territory
*** Part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Bonaire, Curacao, and St. Maarten)
****Special Administrative Region to China
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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.
