Drug Interdiction

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the police's use of trained narcotics sniffing dogs at the front door of a suspect's house is a search under the Fourth Amendment requiring...

* Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., commandant of the Coast Guard, is determined not to repeat the pitfalls of the past. The service has already lived through an era of declining budgets. In...

Mexico's high court (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion, SCJN) made what many consider a historic decision by ruling that civilian courts must have jurisdiction in trials of military personnel charged with...

HIDALGO, Texas - Perched 20 feet above a South Texas cabbage field in a telephone booth-sized capsule, a National Guardsman passes a moonlit Sunday night with a gun strapped to his hip, peering...

Smiths Detection has completed installing 74 IONSCAN 500DT narcotics trace detection systems for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The BOP now has a total of 102 IONSCAN systems deployed in prisons...

Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., recently unveiled the latest addition to its fleet, the R IV Shear-water, a multirole seismic survey vessel at a "a launch party" in New York City. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

The truth about NY crime stoppers In researching the city's policing strategies for a forthcoming book, criminal justice expert Franklin Zimring of the University of California, Berkeley found no clear evidence that stop-and-frisk...

As Mexico continues to advocate for a comprehensive immigration-reform package in the US, the Congress and President Felipe Calderon recently enacted initiatives to protect the rights of migrants from other countries inside Mexican...

IONSCAN 500DT Detectors to be Used for Visitor and Delivery Screening as Part of Drug Interdiction Efforts MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- Smiths Detection has completed installing 74 IONSCAN 500DT narcotics trace detection systems for...

A traffic stop, along with the continued detention and search of the defendant's vehicle by a drug dog with a 58 percent track record of success, did not violate the Fourth Amendment, the...

The world was horrified by the discovery of the bodies of more than 70 immigrants, mostly from Central and South America, last summer at a ranch near the town of San Fernando in...

As the Department of Homeland Security considers a third attempt to deploy technology on the Southwest border to stop illegal immigration and drugs, a sociology professor has released a book outlining the many...

www.state.gov The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Secretary of State Steven G. Hartman Director, Office of Logistics Operations T 703-875-6936 F 703-875-4731 hartmansg2@state.gov Edward J. Brennan Director, Transportation......

GAO-11-508T March 30, 2011 As part of its mission, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through its U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) component, is to secure U.S borders against threats of terrorism;...

Byline: TOM SHARPE Laurence Malone isn't hopeful about getting back his SUV, which was confiscated, he says, because of an error by a clerk at a Mexico bank. "Mexicans are kind of used...

President Felipe Calderon's administration and the Mexican Congress have frequently complained about the ease with which high-caliber weapons make their way into Mexico from the US. The topic comes up often during discussions...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Aura Systems Inc. (OTC: AUSI) announced today that a dual VIPER system provided the electric power for the 45-foot Response Boat-Medium ("RB-M") during its first major drug interdiction on...

The Defense Department this decade will build a fleet of new high-speed aluminum ships specifically designed to shuttle hundreds of troops and tons of cargo around a theater of operations. These shallow-draft logistics...

Some parallels are being drawn between the murder of US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique Camarena in 1985 and the recent assassination of Jaime Zapata, a staff member of US Immigration and...