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Drug Control: Oversight Needed to Prevent Acquisition of Unnecessary Equipment

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 30, 1992
Report No. NSIAD-92-260
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Summary:

The three agencies responsible for intercepting drugs en route to the United States--the Defense Department, the U.S. Customs Service, and the U.S. Coast Guard--each identify their own requirements and establish their own acquisition plans for drug detection and monitoring equipment. No umbrella organization routinely oversees acquisitions to ensure that they respond to valid needs and that wasteful duplication is avoided. Interagency coordination has been a major focus of interdiction efforts, but the emphasis to date has been on coordinating operations, not acquisitions. Although the Office of National Drug Control Policy oversees budget requests and coordinates operations of the interdiction agencies, a similar process has not been established to routinely oversee and coordinate acquisition of detection and monitoring equipment.

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