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Agency Budget Summary
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- The FBI is a multi-jurisdictional investigative agency. The FBI's anti-drug program is a combination of three components: determine the percentage of personnel resources within the Organized Criminal Enterprises that is drug-related and apply that percentage to remaining decision unit resources, calculate a percent of total cost based on crime statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and direct costs related to drug specific projects.
III. Program Summary
- The FBI supports Goal 2 "Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence", Goal 4 "Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat", and Goal 5 "Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply" of the Strategy.
- The FBI is charged with investigating all violations of federal laws with the exception of those which have been assigned by legislation to other agencies. The FBI's jurisdiction includes a wide range of responsibilities in the civil, criminal, and security fields. Among these are terrorism, kidnaping, extortion, bank robbery, interstate transportation of stolen property, civil rights matters, interstate gambling violations, narcotics violations, fraud against the government, money laundering, and assault or murder of the President or a federal officer.
- In the area of drug enforcement, the FBI continues to identify, disrupt and dismantle core trafficking organizations through long-term, sustained investigations aimed at dismantling trafficking networks, arresting their leadership, and seizing and forfeiting their assets. The program is structured to enhance the FBI's drug intelligence base, identify trends and make projections, concentrate resources in major centers of drug trafficking activity, and provide assistance to other law enforcement agencies.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- The FBI's FY 1999 budget includes $873.0 million and 7,421 direct FTEs which support Goal 2, Goal 4, and Goal 5 of the Strategy. The following provides a summary of FY 1999 resources by Strategy goal.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
- The FY 1999 funding for Goal 2 totals $174.6 million. The FBI supports Goal 2 through the activities such as its 162 Safe Street Task Forces, as well as a host of ad hoc task force operations throughout the U.S., including San Juan, Puerto Rico. Safe Street Task Forces team more than 700 FBI Special Agents with 180 other federal officers from agencies such as DEA, Marshals Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and more than 1,200 state and local officers. Safe Street Task Forces allows the FBI and other agencies and law enforcement personnel to address gang and drug-related violence through the establishment of long-term, proactive task forces focusing on violent gang crimes and the apprehension of violent fugitives.
Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
- The FY 1999 funding for Goal 4 totals $113.5 million. The FBI supports Goal 4 through itsinvestigations which disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations that smuggle drugs across America's frontiers, especially along the Southwest Border and in the Caribbean.
Goal 5: Break foreign and domestic drug sources of supply.
- The FY 1999 funding for Goal 5 activities totals $584.9 million. The FBI continues its commitment to providing support for Goal 5 by identifying, disrupting, and dismantling core trafficking organizations through long-term sustained investigations. The FBI's investigative programs are structured to enhance the Bureau's drug intelligence base, identify trends and make projections, concentrate resources in major centers of drug trafficking activity, and provide assistance to other law enforcement agencies.
- The FBI will receive $108.8 million in reimbursable funding for its OCDETF activities.
2000 Request
- The FY 2000 drug control request totals $1,045.4 million and 8,661 FTEs in support of Goals 2, 4 and 5, an increase of $172.4 million over FY 1999 levels. This increase is comprised of the following components: 1) adjustments to base totaling $36.6 million, 2) transfer of ICDE resources to direct funding totaling $113.0 million, and 3) program enhancements totaling $22.6 million.
- Program enhancements largely support Goals 4 and 5 activities and include the following:
- $7.5 million for the Telecommunications Carrier Compliance Fund (TCCF). This initiative seeks to maintain law enforcement's ability to lawfully conduct court-authorized electronic surveillance and use it as an investigative tool to reduce violent crime, including organized crime and gang-related violence; to reduce the availability and abuse of illegal drugs through traditional and innovative enforcement efforts; and to reduce espionage and terrorism sponsored by both foreign and domestic groups in the U.S. and abroad, especially when directed at U.S. citizens and/or institutions.
- $11.6 million for the Information Sharing Initiative. This initiative supports the FBI's information technology (IT) strategy that is critical to the success of FBI operations. This initiative would provide case management of the Bureau's workload and provide a better way to collect, analyze, and sort intelligence to other FBI field offices, federal, state and local law enforcement.
- $1.1 million is requested for the Computer Analysis and Response Teams. The widespread use of computers and the rapidly developing technology of computer systems have combined to dramatically increase the volume and complexity of computer evidence in high-tech criminal investigations. Today, FBI agents investigating drug trafficking organizations require the ability to access computers and computer systems to retrieve information to be used as evidence.
- $2.1 million for the Collection Management Officers initiative. This initiative provides Intelligence Operations Specialists to support the collection and dissemination ofinformation across all FBI programs. The FBI has tremendous collection capabilities and needs to ensure that relevant information gets across programs to investigators. Developing sufficient intelligence to identify major drug organizations and their affiliates is key to success in FBI investigations.
- $0.3 million for the FBI's Investigative Information Services (IIS) program. The IIS program provides all FBI offices, including the Legal Attache offices, with investigative information gleaned from the numerous commercial online, public source, internal, and sensitive databases.
V. Program Accomplishments
- A major initiative in South Florida targets significant drug smugglers who use ships to import multi-thousand kilogram shipments of drugs into the U.S. In December 1997, the FBI in Miami received information about pending shipments of cocaine aboard marine vessels (MV) Nicole and the Sea Star II and established lookouts for these two vessels. As a result of the lookouts, British Customs intercepted the MV Nicole in British territorial waters and escorted it to Providenicales, Turks and Caicos, where they seized 2,275 kilograms of cocaine and arrested 10 crew members. In February 1998, Bahamian authorities intercepted the MV Sea Star II, searched it, seized 2,268 kilograms of cocaine, and arrested 11 crew members.
- On April 15, 1998, the FBI successfully conducted an undercover operation against six Police of Puerto Rico (POPR) and local police officers wherein these officers believed that they were hired to protect a shipment of narcotics onto the island of Vieques. On April 24, 1998, four more police officers were consensually recorded taking bribes to protect another shipment of cocaine to be delivered sometime in the future. On May 4, 1998, FBI agents and the POPR Superintendent arrested six POPR officers, one Port Authority officer, and two local police officers under a federal criminal complaint for their role in the above transactions. One Port Authority Police Officer is a fugitive.
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