NCJ Number
101917
Date Published
1986
Length
12 pages
Annotation
The Federal Government is coordinating the efforts of Federal, State, and local law enforcement to combat criminal hazardous waste disposal and illegal drug consumption.
Abstract
The detection and prosecution of illegal hazardous waste disposal requires the cooperation of Federal, State, and local officials. Planned cooperation includes a federally sponsored training program for State and local investigators and technical personnel in the fall of 1986 and the sharing of grand jury material with State investigators for joint prosecutions. Other recent initiatives are the establishment of the National Environmental Enforcement Council, composed of Federal, State, and local environmental enforcement officials who promote cooperation, training, and information sharing; and the publication of the 'National Environmental Enforcement Journal,' which reports on important environmental enforcement matters nationwide. Federal initiatives to combat drug abuse not only focus on law enforcement but on the education of the young to prevent their drug consumption. Such an effort requires local participation of both government officials and the private sector. The educational focus is on the danger of drug abuse, with attention to the debilitating and often life-threatening effects of particular drugs.