Multiagency Course Dates for 2010 and 2011 Announced

The projected Multiagency Course dates for 2010 and 2011 have been released. The Multiagency Course is an intensive, 1-week, entry level training drug intelligence analysis course. This introductory course provides an overview of counterdrug intelligence analysis, introduces participants to basic analytical tools and techniques, and allows participants to apply newly acquired skills to a comprehensive final practical exercise involving charting, analysis, and presentation.

Domestic Cannabis Cultivation Assessment 2009 released

This annual report provides policymakers, law enforcement executives, resource planners, and cannabis eradication program coordinators with strategic intelligence regarding cannabis cultivation and marijuana trafficking trends. It highlights strategic trends in indoor and outdoor cannabis cultivation, particularly in principal domestic cultivation areas. This assessment also presents strategic intelligence regarding the operational trends and tendencies of drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and criminal groups that produce marijuana, and it addresses the violence, hazards, and environmental damage associated with domestic cannabis cultivation.
July 2009     Product No. 2009-L0848-001A  html   pdf  (11,879 KB)

2010 Raid Training Dates announced

The Real-time Analytical Intelligence Database (RAID) is a National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC)-designed tool used in support of criminal prosecution. It is also used by several law enforcement agencies for organizing and sharing case information. The software helps analysts to catalog and analyze valuable information collected from seized evidence or law enforcement intelligence.  The projected 2010 training dates are:

February 22-26, 2010
May 17-21, 2010
August 23-27, 2010
November 15-19, 2010

See our Raid Training page for further information.

• National Drug Threat Assessment 2009
• National Methamphetamine Threat Assessment 2009
• National Gang Threat Assessment 2009
• National Prescription Drug Threat Assessment 2009
• Domestic Cannabis Cultivation Assessment 2009
• Indian Country Drug Threat Assessment 2008
• NDIC Highlights Fiscal Year 2008

2010 RAID training dates announced

The Real-time Analytical Intelligence Database (RAID) is a National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC)-designed tool used in support of criminal prosecution. It is also used by several law enforcement agencies for organizing and sharing case information. The software helps analysts to catalog and analyze valuable information collected from seized evidence or law enforcement intelligence. Training dates for 2010 are:

February 22-26, 2010
May 17-21, 2010
August 23-27, 2010
November 15-19, 2010

NDIC joins with OCDETF in Operation Holiday Express

U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) Special Agent In-Charge (SAC) Thomas Brandon, Detroit Field Office, and Lansing, Michigan Police Chief Mark Alley announce the arrests of seven defendants in two states in connection with “Operation Holiday Express,” an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Investigation led by the U.S. Justice Department’s ATF in cooperation with the Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the Lansing Police Department, and LA IMPACT, a drug enforcement task force operating in the greater Los Angeles area. Read more in the Twelve Michigan and California Residents Charged With Being Members of Cocaine & Money Laundering Conspiracies release. 

NDIC contributes to sentencing of doctor for illegal prescriptions

NDIC's participation in the investigation of illegal prescriptions aided in the sentencing of a Georgia doctor to serve 10 years in federal prison for his conviction on 175 counts of illegally dispensing prescription drugs from 2002 until his arrest in 2007. Read more in the Doctor Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Illegal Prescriptions (pdf) press release.

SENTRY is an Internet-based system designed to collect and disseminate synthetic drug-related data in order to identify new trends at an early stage, evaluate their likely importance, and track their development.

SENTRY focuses on synthetic drugs that are primarily produced via a chemical process, such as LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as ecstasy), and methamphetamine. To be truly effective as an early warning system, however, the system also monitors prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, botanical substances and extracts, and chemicals and products involved in the manufacturing of synthetic drugs.

Enter the Sentry Web Site

Dynamic Mapping Initiative - Select information collected by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) in the course of producing domestic drug intelligence products is presented on this web site through dynamic and static maps. Interactive maps depicting city and county responses to selected questions from NDIC’s annual National Drug Threat Survey in 2006 and 2007 are currently available.