ABOUT THE HIDTA PROGRAM
The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program, created by Congress with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, provides assistance to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies operating in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States. Each HIDTA assesses the drug trafficking threat in its defined area for the upcoming year, develops a strategy to address that threat, designs initiatives to implement the strategy, proposes funding needed to carry out the initiatives, and prepares an annual report describing its performance the previous year.
A central feature of the HIDTA program is the discretion granted to the Executive Boards to design and implement initiatives that confront drug trafficking threats in each HIDTA. The South Texas HIDTA encompasses 15 counties, of which 13 share 625 mile border with Mexico representing approximately 50% of the U.S.- Mexico border in Texas and 31% of the entire U.S.-Mexico border. This border is one of the most formidable and strategically important drug smuggling corridors in use by both domestic and Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations.
STX HIDTA MISSION STATEMENT:
To reduce drug availability by creating intelligence-driven drug task forces aimed at eliminating or reducing domestic drug trafficking and its harmful consequences through enhancing and helping to coordinate drug trafficking control efforts among federal, tribal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
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SOUTH TEXAS HIDTA
Includes the following counties:
Bexar, Cameron, Dimmit, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kinney, La Salle, Maverick, Starr, Travis, Val Verde, Webb, Willacy, Zapata and Zavala.
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