The bureau is also involved in the interdiction of drug trafficking through the Sky Harbor International Airport and shipping facilities throughout the city. Future co-location of task forces will reduce duplication of effort, increase interagency cooperation, enable sharing of intelligence, and make all narcotics operations in the valley more efficient and effective. The Enforcement Section has eight squads to investigate narcotics complaints and to conduct criminal investigations and includes a juvenile enforcement detail. Undercover Street Enforcement Squads continued to meet challenges.
Emphasis is placed on responding to the needs of each individual precinct.
For this purpose, each precinct is assigned its own enforcement squad to investigate neighborhood narcotics complaints, conduct undercover drug buys, and serve search warrants. DEB received a total of 2,486 narcotics and dangerous drug complaints, a decrease from 1998 s total of 3,820. The Enforcement Section is also responsible for investigating methamphetamine labs located in the city and the valley. The Enforcement Section investigated 116 cases for the year, an increase from 87 in 1998. During 1999, the Enforcement Section conducted Trojan Horse III, an undercover operation involving two valley high schools, to locate and identify drug dealers within schools, outside schools, and in areas frequented by youths.