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Federal Audit Knocks DEA For Poor Performance
Washington, DC: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has not adopted "specific criteria" to determine whether the agency is meeting its stated goals of targeting and dismantling drug traffickers, according to an audit report released by the US Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General (IOG).
"The DEA's strategic goal and objectives were not definitive enough to allow for an assessment of whether [its] goal and objectives were being achieved," the report concluded. In particular, "Specific criteria ... to designate organizations as 'priority target' organizations [and] specific criteria ... to report on the primary performance indicator - priority target organizations disrupted or dismantled ... [have] not [been] established."
The IOG report is the second federal review this year panning the agency's performance. In February, a report by the White House Office of Management and Budget concluded that the DEA was "unable to demonstrate its progress in reducing the availability of illegal drugs in the US."
That report rated the DEA a zero on a scale of zero to 100 in the category of "results/accountability," and recommended that "new measures [are] needed" if the agency is to be effective in the future.
NORML Foundation Executive Director Allen St. Pierre called the
agency's performance "embarrassing," adding: "If the DEA was a private company, it would be out of business."
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre of The NORML Foundation at (202) 483-8751. Text of the OIG report (Report No. 03-35) is available online at: http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/igwhnew1.htm
Washington, DC: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has not adopted "specific criteria" to determine whether the agency is meeting its stated goals of targeting and dismantling drug traffickers, according to an audit report released by the US Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General (IOG).
"The DEA's strategic goal and objectives were not definitive enough to allow for an assessment of whether [its] goal and objectives were being achieved," the report concluded. In particular, "Specific criteria ... to designate organizations as 'priority target' organizations [and] specific criteria ... to report on the primary performance indicator - priority target organizations disrupted or dismantled ... [have] not [been] established."
The IOG report is the second federal review this year panning the agency's performance. In February, a report by the White House Office of Management and Budget concluded that the DEA was "unable to demonstrate its progress in reducing the availability of illegal drugs in the US."
That report rated the DEA a zero on a scale of zero to 100 in the category of "results/accountability," and recommended that "new measures [are] needed" if the agency is to be effective in the future.
NORML Foundation Executive Director Allen St. Pierre called the
agency's performance "embarrassing," adding: "If the DEA was a private company, it would be out of business."
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre of The NORML Foundation at (202) 483-8751. Text of the OIG report (Report No. 03-35) is available online at: http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/igwhnew1.htm
