Mission Statement
Measurably reduce drug trafficking, thereby reducing the impact of illicit drugs in this region and other areas of the country. To accomplish this mission, the CBAG will assist in the coordination of joint operational and supporting initiatives to deter, disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately destroy the most significant Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO's), their supporting transportation and money laundering organizations. The CBAG will also emphasize efforts against methamphetamine manufacturing, precursor supply, and abuse through innovative enforcement operations and demand reduction programs utilizing a multi-agency, joint concept of operations.
The emphasis is on seamless mutual support between intelligence, interdictors, investigators and prosecutors, with cross-attachment and collocation of enforcement groups with responsibility for differing operational methods, target regions and target levels of investigation. The flow of information, both intelligence and investigative/operational, is critical to comprehensive success against the widely varying drug threats in the region.
Intelligence
The San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center SD-LECC, the CBAG's intelligence center, will provide responsive event deconfliction, case/subject deconfliction via pointer index, case support, intelligence fusion, and predictive analyses, Law Enforcement Coordination Center intelligence subsystems, and member agency intelligence units. Interdiction operations and investigations will be coordinated with the intelligence center to the greatest extent practicable, with allowances for grand jury secrecy, privacy of taxpayer information, Title III restrictions, and agency security requirements. The intelligence center will work to identify and assess major and secondary DTOs, and develop organizational profiles including key personalities, methodologies, facilities, assets, and capabilities and vulnerabilities of those DTOs. Further, the intelligence center will provide studies of the geographical areas and communities with the highest levels of trafficking activity. Based on these assessments, the intelligence center will assist in the development of target lists, identifying critical nodes and their susceptibility to interdiction, investigation, prosecution, or further intelligence exploitation. This will necessitate, within prudent security limits, law, and agency policies, the free and mutual flow of information to the NIN, with the full cooperation of all participating Law Enforcement Agencies. The CBAG Intelligence Subsystem is extremely active in linking and achieving integration with the Intelligence Subsystems of the other SWB HIDTA Regions, utilizing border-wide ISC participation in Operation Cobija, ISC Managers meetings, the RISS, ADNET-U, and other sensitive-but-unclassified (SBU) networks.
Our Territory
area of responsibility includes both San Diego and Imperial Counties. This includes the entire shared international border between California and Mexico which is home to the busiest international land border crossing at San Ysidro. The region also stretches from the pacific coast, east to the Colorado River and California's border with Arizona. The region spans 8,700 square miles and includes a population in excess of 3.3 million citizens.
