Russia, U.S., Norway to Hold Joint Naval Drills in August - Global Security
24 May 2012, 2:47 pm
MURMANSK, May 24 (RIA Novosti) - Russia, the United States, and Norway will hold maritime interdiction operations and search and rescue maneuvers during joint naval drills in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea in August, Russia’s Northern ...

Pak navy inducts first squadron of indigenously made UAVs - Deccan Herald
22 May 2012, 3:43 am
The Pakistan Navy has inducted its first squadron of indigenously made unmanned aerial vehicles that will be used for maritime interdiction operations in coastal areas. The UAVs were inducted into the naval fleet during a ceremony held at the PNS Mehran ...

Colombia Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Spreads to the DEA - YAHOO!
22 May 2012, 12:16 am
The DEA has agents posted in Colombia to work on counter-narcotic and drug interdiction missions with Colombian authorities. According to officials the agents were among those assigned in Colombia, they were not specifically working on the President's trip.

AFP chief to receive 2nd US patrol ship - ABS-CBN
19 May 2012, 7:00 am
She received her baptism of fire in Vietnam, providing fire support and interdiction of Vietcong smuggling boats. The “Dallas” is equipped with an Oto Melara 76mm gun and two 25mm “Bushmaster” machineguns. However, officials tell ABS-CBN News that ...

Central Asia Key to Afghanistan Heroin Smuggling – UNODC - EurasiaNet
18 May 2012, 10:58 am
A new report by the United Nations drug agency sheds light on the nuts and bolts of narcotics transit from Afghanistan through Central Asia, highlighting the former Soviet republics’ lackluster efforts at interdiction. The 106-page report by ...

DEA wants to scan license plates on I-15 in southern Utah - Deseret News
18 May 2012, 5:35 am
The primary purpose, they said, would be to nab drug traffickers, violent offenders and kidnappers. “From a drug perspective, interdiction, I love the sounds of this. From the public relations aspect and government intrusion into the public's ...

U.S. Insists Its Anti-Drug Agents Did Not Fire on Innocent Hondurans - Time
17 May 2012, 5:01 am
But a deadly incident in the pre-dawn darkness last Friday, May 11, has already cast controversy on this stepped-up interdiction partnership. According to local officials I interviewed by phone this week, at around 3 a.m. helicopters carrying ...

JCSO drug stop yields arrests, crack cocaine - Beaumont Enterprise
15 May 2012, 12:56 pm
According to Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman, the county narcotics unit was working narcotics interdiction when they observed a vehicle disregard a stop sign at the intersection of Marvin Hancock and West Houston Street. After the vehicle was stopped ...

Peru: Disability Rights in the Voting Booth - Human Rights Watch
15 May 2012, 9:57 am
The report examines how the country’s system of judicial interdiction – which places people under guardianship – and public records that officially identify people as “mentally disabled” create obstacles in practically all spheres of life.

Counternarcotics and Law Enforcement Country Program: Colombia - U.S. Department of State
14 May 2012, 6:55 pm
Strong eradication and interdiction programs continue to be essential for disrupting today’s narcotrafficking networks and for thwarting cultivation in Colombia’s more remote areas. The GOC’s National Consolidation Plan, which the Embassy supports ...