Transcript CICDAT

Uniform Drug Supply Control
Statistical System
CICDAT
Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)
CICAD / OAS
May 2005
What is CICDAT?
• It is the statistical information system on
control of the drug supply area
• It shows the illicit drug trafficking situation in
the Hemisphere
• It is a support tool for the Multilateral
Evaluation Mechanism
• It stimulates the establishment of interinstitutional networks within countries so as to
obtain national figures
• It uses standardized questionnaires for the
collection of information
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Collection Network
Judiciary Police
Customs
Municipal
Police
Army
Federal Police
Marines/
Coastguards
National
Coordinating
Entity
National
Reports
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OTHER
Hemispheric
Reports
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Collection Forms
• 7 Subjects on a standardized :
– Drug Seizures
– Seizures of Chemical products
– Seizures of Firearms, Vehicles, Real
Estate, Money and other equipment
– Laboratories of illicit drugs
– Areas of illicit cultivation
– Persons arrested, tried and convicted for
drug offenses
– Money laundering control activities
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General Characteristics
Country
Institution reporting the data
Period (quarter and year)
Remarks
Notes
Version
Units of measure
– Kg (kilograms), Lt (Liters), Un (Units referring to Plants,
Doses, Tablets, etc).
• Decimal separator (.) “the dot”
• Thousands separator (,) “the comma”
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Seizure
• Seizure means temporarily prohibiting
the transfer, conversion, disposition or
movement of property or temporarily
assuming custody or control of
property.
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Drug Seizures
(Form 1)
• The more common drugs, grouped by:
– Opiates
– Coca leaf and its derivatives
– Cannabis leaf and its derivatives
– Psychotropic substances
– Other
• Number of Seizures
– By drug
– Total (Seizures per drug)
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Seizures of Chemical Products
(Form 2)
• Controlled Chemical Substances includes
chemical substances listed in CICAD’s Model
Regulations as well as other chemical substances
not included in CICAD’s MR but controlled by the
reporting country
• A – Chemical precursors
• B – Chemical products (no precursors)
• C – Raw materials or consumables
• D – Pharmaceutical products – Very extensive list
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Seizures of Firearms, Vehicles,
Real Estate, Money and other
Equipment (Form 3)
• Arms (Firearms and other)
• Vehicles
– Terrestrial: cars, trucks, motorcycles,
etc.
– Maritime: ships, boats, etc.
– Aerial: airplanes, helicopters, etc.
– Other (bicycles, etc.)
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Seizures of Firearms, Vehicles,
Real Estate, Money and other
Equipment (Form 3) cont.
• Other equipment:
– scales, presses, communication eq., etc.
• Real Estate:
– houses, commercial properties, farms, etc.
• Money:
– Specify currency and equivalent in US
dollars
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Laboratories (Form 4)
• Laboratories refer to facilities or
locations where drugs are produced,
manufactured or otherwise prepared
(including processing pits). These drugs
include organic based substances such
as cocaine, heroin, hashish, etc., as
well as synthetic drugs such as
amphetamine-like stimulants,
methamphetamine and “designer
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drugs”.
Laboratories (Form 4) cont.
• Potential annual production capacity
refers to the quantities of illicit drugs
that the laboratory could have produced
during the course of a year if it had not
been seized and destroyed.
• Total of laboratories discovered
– Could be laboratories manufacturing more
than one drug
(Total # laboratories by drug)
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Cultivated Areas of raw material
(Form 5A)
• Cultivated Area (Total, licit and illicit)
• Potential Production of raw material
(cannabis, coca leaf, Opium) obtained
from those areas
• New cultivated areas since the last
period informed and its potential
production of raw material
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Areas removed from illicit
cultivation
(Form 5B)
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By eradication
By abandonment
By fumigation
Other methods
Potential Production in MT/Ha.
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Persons arrested, tried and
convicted for drug-related
offenses
(Form 6)
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Type of offense
Age groups
Occupation
Nationality
Total
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Persons arrested, tried and
convicted for drug-related
offenses
(Form 6) cont.
• For illicit drug trafficking
– Generally speaking this means possession for the
purpose of trafficking, cultivation, production
(including manufacturing and processing),
import/export, distribution and sale
• For illicit drug possession
– Illicit drug possession refers to possession not
related to trafficking. The specific offences are
defined by domestic legislation and can include
but are not restricted to personal use or
consumption among others.
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Persons arrested, tried and
convicted for drug-related
offenses
(Form 6) cont.
• Persons tried relative to persons
arrested
• Persons convicted relative to persons
tried
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Money Laundering (Form 7A-7D)
• 7A – General Data on the country’s
economy and Financial System
– GDP, Exports, Imports (in USD)
– Volume of banking and non-banking
entities
• 7B – Number of Reports of Suspicious
Transactions sent to the UIF
– Total, # for Drugs, # sent to the Judicial
System, etc.
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Money Laundering (Form 7A-7D) (cont.)
• 7C – Actions taken by the Judicial
System on Money Laundering
– Persons arrested, tried and convicted
– Criminal procedures iniciated
– Value of confiscated properties
• 7D – International Cooperation
– Administrative Requests
– Legal requests
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Software for information
collection
• Was developed to make it easier to fill
out the forms
• Faster information flow
• Facilitates communication among
institutions
• Makes for easier information gathering
and consolidation as well as report
generation
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• Allows the addition of new variables
Information Flow
On line Reports
On line Process
Internet
Centralized
Database
OAS Headquerters
Off-line Process
Software distribution
Off-line Reports for each institution
db1 individual
db2 individual db3 individual
Off-line
Reports
Local connection
to the Internet
Distribution and update
Process - On line
Consolidated Database
In the country
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Problems Encountered
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Incomplete information
Lack of information break down
Out-of-date information submission
Not enough use of the software
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How and when the countries
send their information
• 34 Member States:
18 countries - Spanish (Brazil)
16 countries – English (Haiti)
• Out of 18 Spanish-speaking countries:
11 quarterly
7 annually
• Out of 16 English-speaking countries:
1 quarterly
7 do not send information
8 annually
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How and when the countries
send their information (cont.)
• Out of the 18 Spanish-speaker countries:
– Only 5 use the CICDAT software
– All of them send drug seizures and
persons arrested information
– Only 7 send drug cultivation information
– Only 4 send information on laboratories
– Only 2 have sent info on money
laundering
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How and when the countries
send their information (cont.)
• Out of 16 English-speaking countries :
– 9 asked for a password for the CICDAT
software, but do not use it
– All of them send drug seizures and
persons arrested information
– 8 send inf. about equipment and real
estate seizures
– Only 3 send info on laboratories
– Only 4 send drug info on cultivation
– Only 1 sends info on chemical products
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Schedule for data entry
• Each quarter should be entered at the
end of the next quarter.
1st Qt
CALENDAR YEAR
2nd Qt
3rd Qt
4th Qt
1st Qt
1st Qt
2nd Qt
DATA
3rd Qt
4th Qt
Data
Period to enter the data
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Results
• Statistical Summary on Drugs 12th
Edition:
– Is published on CICAD’s web site
www.cicad.oas.org/oid/estadistica
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– Shows the figures collected
– Presents Quantitative Analysis
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STATISTICAL
SUMMARY ON
DRUGS
Uniform Drug Supply
Control Statistical System
CICDAT
Inter-American Drug Use
Data System
SIDUC
http//:www.cicad.oas.org/oid/estadisticas
DRUG SEIZURES IN THE AMERICAS
YEAR 2001
Cocaine
Cannabis
Heroin
Northamerica
Central America
The Caribbean
South America
SEIZURES OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS IN THE AMERICAS
Kg. Potassium Permanganate
Lt.
Lt.
Sulfuric Acid
Hydrocloric Acid
Potential Production in 2001
50,000 Kg. P. Perm. 
500,000 Kg. Cocaine
THANK YOU!
Adrian Noble
OID – CICAD / OAS
[email protected]