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117181 1 (1981-12-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacstb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 SUMMARY STATEMENT 117181 The development of a comprehensive, cohesive Federal narcotics en- forcement policy is a complex and multi-faceted undertaking. The strategy must involve all aspects of the criminal justice system-- investigation, prosecution, adjudication, conviction, and sentenc- ing--and must be on an international as well as a national level. * Through the years, a general strategy has evolved. For example, it is the Federal Government's strategy to allocate resourdes to com- bat the most dangerous drugs of abuse, to go after high-level traffickers, to seek convictions under the statutes that provide longer periods of incarceration and forfeiture of criminal assets, and to have those Federal agencies concerned with drugs working together. * Although this strategy may need fine-tuning, it can serve as an adequate.foundation for implementing the Federal Government's nar- cotics enforcement policy. The drug enforcement problem lies not in formulating but in implementing the strategy. * Unfortunately, for example, prison terms do not seem to be all they should be, efforts to achieve forfeiture of criminal assets have not always been aggressive, drug investigations have not always been directed at the largest trafficking organizations, and the many involved Federal agencies do not always work together. * This is not to say that there has been no progress. There has. But if further significant advances are to be made in the fight against drugs, then some means must be found to ensure that a sound strategy is accompanied by effective implementation.

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