KHYBER
A high level United States delegation of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Justice met with Director Customs Intelligence last day.
The USA delegation was led by the Country Attaché for Pakistan Jaffrey A Konvalinka.
The DG Customs explained to the delegation the core functions of customs Intelligence and highlighted the organizational operations.
DG Custom told the US ambassador that they carry out its operations on the basis of credible information. He said It had fairly good expertise on gathering of information and the success rate of its hits was more than 90 percent. He, however, said that support of the DEA of the US Government would certainly improve Pakistan’s customs intelligence capacity.
Jaffrey said that the US drug enforcement administration was established in 1973 and today it had more than four thousand employees located in hundreds of offices across the country.
He said the primary function of DEA was interdiction of controlled substances throughout the world by collection, analysis and dissemination of information on their movement.
He assured assistance of US Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice in capacity building of the Directorate General of Customs Intelligence on speedy information gathering and quality post seizure investigations.
The US Attaché for Pakistan also assured support to further strengthen liaison and coordination between the Directorate General of Customs Intelligence and Foreign Law Enforcement Community (FLEC) to meet new and emerging challenges with respect to narcotics interdiction in Pakistan and the region.
