CICDAT Uniform Drug Supply Control Statistical System Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID) CICAD / OAS May 2005

CICDAT

Uniform Drug Supply Uniform Drug Supply Control Statistical SystemControl Statistical System

Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID)

CICAD / OCICAD / OASASMay 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 inter-

institutional networks within countries so as to obtain national figures

• It uses standardized questionnaires for the collection of information

OID-OID-CICAD / OACICAD / OASS

Collection Network


National National Coordinating Coordinating

EntityEntity

OTHER

Army

Federal Police

Marines/ Coastguards

CustomsJudiciary Police

Municipal Police

National Reports

CICAD

Hemispheric Reports

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


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”


Seizure

• Seizure means temporarily prohibiting the transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of property or temporarily assuming custody or control of property.


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)


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


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.)OID-OID-CICAD / OACICAD / OASS

• Other equipment: – scales, presses, communication eq., etc.

• Real Estate: – houses, commercial properties, farms, etc.

• Money: – Specify currency and equivalent in US

dollars


Seizures of Firearms, Vehicles, Real Estate, Money and other

Equipment (Form 3) cont.

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 drugs”. OID-OID-CICAD / OACICAD / OASS

• 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)


Laboratories (Form 4) cont.

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


• By eradication

• By abandonment

• By fumigation

• Other methods

• Potential Production in MT/Ha.


Areas removed from illicit cultivation

(Form 5B)

Persons arrested, tried and convicted for drug-related

offenses(Form 6)

• Type of offense

• Age groups

• Occupation

• Nationality

• Total


• 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.



offenses(Form 6) cont.

• Persons tried relative to persons arrested• Persons convicted relative to persons

tried



offenses(Form 6) cont.

• 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. OID-OID-CICAD / OACICAD / OASS

Money Laundering (Form 7A-7D)

• 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


Money Laundering (Form 7A-7D) (cont.)

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

• Allows the addition of new variablesOID-OID-CICAD / OACICAD / OASS

Information Flow

to the Internet

Local connection

db1 individual db2 individual db3 individual

On line Reports

Off-line Process

Internet

On line Process

Consolidated DatabaseIn the country

Distribution and update

Process - On line

Database

Centralized

Software distribution

Off-line Reports for each institution

Off-line Reports

OAS Headquerters


Problems Encountered

• Incomplete information

• Lack of information break down

• Out-of-date information submission

• Not enough use of the software


How and when the countries How and when the countries send their informationsend 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 quarterly7 do not send information8 annually

OID-OID-CICAD / OASCICAD / OAS

• 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

OID-OID-CICAD / OEACICAD / OEA

How and when the countries How and when the countries send their information send their information (cont.)(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

OID-OID-CICAD / OEACICAD / OEA

How and when the countries How and when the countries send their information send their information (cont.)(cont.)

Schedule for data entrySchedule for data entry

• Each quarter should be entered at the end of the next quarter.

OID-OID-CICAD / OASCICAD / OAS

1st Qt 2nd Qt 3rd Qt 4th Qt 1st Qt1st Qt

2nd Qt3rd Qt4th Qt

DataPeriod to enter the data

DATA

CALENDAR YEAR

Results

• Statistical Summary on Drugs 12th Edition:– Is published on CICAD’s web site

www.cicad.oas.org/oid/estadisticas

– Shows the figures collected

– Presents Quantitative Analysis


http://www.cicad.oas.org/oid/estadisticas

http://www.cicad.oas.org/oid/estadisticas

STATISTICAL SUMMARY ON

DRUGSUniform Drug Supply Control Statistical System

CICDAT

Inter-American Drug Use Data System

SIDUC

http//:www.cicad.oas.org/oidhttp//:www.cicad.oas.org/oid//estadisticasestadisticas

CocaineDRUG SEIZURES IN THE AMERICASDRUG SEIZURES IN THE AMERICAS

Heroin

Cannabis

Northamerica

Central America

The Caribbean

South America

YEAR 2001YEAR 2001

Potassium Permanganate

SEIZURES OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS IN THE AMERICASSEIZURES OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS IN THE AMERICAS

Hydrocloric Acid

Potential Production in 2001

Sulfuric Acid

50,000 Kg. P. Perm. 500,000 Kg. Cocaine

Lt.

Kg. Lt.

Adrian NobleAdrian Noble

OID – OID – CICADCICAD / O/ OASAS

[email protected]@oas.org

THANK YOU!THANK YOU!

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CICDAT Uniform Drug Supply Control Statistical System Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID) CICAD / OAS May 2005