Bodyguard and Security / 1st Issue

10 years of IBSSA – official publication
Center for Narcotics Information Support
The organization’s fundamental objective
includes the fight against the use of drugs, containment
of drug induced criminality and the
reduction of drug consumption. The scope of the
organization’s mission includes supply of information
to the various law enforcement organizations
(incl. anti-drug services, crime prevention
agencies) and provision of accurate and updated
information to the respective professional communi-ties.
In addition, the scope of mission comprises
support to prevention of drug abuse
(including the related research, development,
educational and training activities), development
of methodologies and anti-drug strategies and
the manufacture of assets needed to implement
the above tasks. Also providing support to the
enhancement of safety and security of public
transport (with particular regard to the safety
and security of civil aviation) belong to the scope
of CNIS’s activities.
In accordance with the Hungarian and international
anti-drug strategies, the Center for Narcotics
Information Support (CNIS) intends to meet its antidrug
responsibilities by reducing both the supply of
and demand for drugs. We have launched our programs
in the neighboring Central and Eastern
European countries; the first results have been
achieved in Romania, the Slovak Republic, Austria and
Moldavia.
We co-operate with the Central and Eastern
European countries in the joint management with the
common problems and in repelling any drug-abuse
phenomenon. Our ideology focuses on herald-ing
advantages of the pursuit of sports and the useful
options of leisure-time activities, in contrast to the
detrimental consequences of drug-abuse.
One of the Center’s key missions is to build a
bridge between the civil defense organizations and the
law enforcement agencies furthermore to alleviate any
tension or difference of opinions that can evolve. It
should be highlighted that the law enforcement agencies’
primary intention is to reduce the supply of
drugs, in contrast to the NGOs which try to hold back
the rate of growth of demand for drugs, however, the
success of the two sides is strongly interrelated. The
key objective implies coordinated co-operation of the
organizations concerned and finding common solutions
to the problems and difficulties.
CNIS develops strategies geared to constrain the
network of drug distribution. The operator and security
firms, the law enforcement agencies and the NGOs
must assume unconditional commitment and coordinate
their efforts for the success of these strategies.
The Center and its partners are able to conduct
informative and training programs to contribute to
restraining of the drug-abuse phenomena and to the
interactive association of strategies related to the persecution
of criminal offenses and to the reduction or
prevention of any related harm and detriment.
Of course, achievement of the above explained goals
requires the development of anti-drug strategies at the
level of companies and organizations; the CNIS
experts shall render assistance to designing such
methodology. Special emphasis should be laid on our
participation in large-scale events normally characterized
by frequent and intensive presence of drugs. We
can not overemphasize the importance of co-operation
among the NGOs and the law enforcement agencies
and the enforcement of professional actions against
persons being under the influence of drugs.
Another goal set by Center for Narcotics
Information Support is aimed at equipping the antidrug
agencies’ experts with special devices, including
equipment that can directly assist the experts in recognizing
any sign indicative of the presence of drugs
and in identifying persons already addicted to drugs.
The Center acts as a direct representative of the
Anti-Drug department of IBSSA NPD, in close relation
with the Program of Safe Entertainment Facilities. We
participate in the training of companies responsible for
civil security and provide professional support to them.
In 2002, we established formal relationship with the
International Training Center of the Minis-try of
Interior. CNIS has maintained continuous relations
with the International Narcotic En-forcement
Officers’ Association (INEOA) that lays a special
emphasis on the reduction of de-mand for drugs, within
the complex set of anti-drug activities.
The Center for Narcotics Information Support
appointed “regional representatives” in several counties
of Hungary. These persons are expected to become
soon active members of the local anti-drug committees
responsible for maintaining the law and order in the
respective region’s places of entertainment, analyzing
corporate anti-drug strategies and other key areas of
fight against the use of narcotic substances.
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