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Review of Selected Narcotics Enforcement Research and
Demonstration Projects. GGD-78-9; P-1R3363. December 14, 1977.
26 pp. + 3 appendices (9 pp.).
Report to Sen. Sam Nunn, Vice Chairman, Senate CoLmittee on
Governmental Affairs: Permanent Sutcommittee on Investigations;
by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Law Enforcement and Crime Prevention: Controlled
Items (502) ; Science and Technclogy: Management and
Oversight of Programs (2004)
Contact: General Government Div.
Budget Function: Law Enforcement and justice: Federal Law
Enforcement and Prosecution (751).
Organizaticn Concerned: Department of Justice; Drug Enforcement
Administration; Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.
Congressional Relevance: Senate Committee on Governmental
Affairs: Permanen* Subcommittee on Investigations.
Federal ;'.-tics enforcement agencies use science and
technology t(, improve and augment narcotics enforcement. Of 18
narcotics enforcement >oseprch and developmeilt projects
reviewed, 9 we-., selected I--, the Office of Science a'
'echnology (OST) in the Executive Cfficp of the President, 4 by
the Bureau if Narcotics and Dangercus Drugs (BVDD), and 2 bl the
Drug Enforcement AdministT '4on (DIA). The remaining 3 were
selected by the OST at th .est of the BNDD.
Findings/Conclusion;: The .'atility of records limited the
evaluation of the project ,rocess. All but 1 of
primary contracts for the lb were awarded on a
sole-source basis. A test cf st t contracts awarded by DEA
showed that it was making great, of competitive
procurements. GAO was unable * tine how $402,000 provided
for 20 additional pcsitions in : 43 supplemental
appropriation was spent. The use or research and development
funds to support certain projects appeared questionable. It was
not possible to determine the total expenaitures for individual
projects. Ten oa the projects --oduced either information or
equipment that was used in Federdl n&rcotics enforcement efforts
or led to further research. ?or he remaining eight projects,
the research fiiled to achieve its objective, produced results
too costly co implement, or prcduced results which were not used
because they werp net related to the agency's mission. One limit
on the use made of research and development project results may
have been the lack cf a formal policy of technology transfer
among Federal agencies, a matter currentli under consideration.
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