United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-07-26 monographic deposited born digital 102 p. GA 1.13:GAO-01-482 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-482 P0b002ee18039c944 f:d01482 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-482 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-482 GAO-01-482 Drug trafficking Federal/state relations Gangs Law enforcement agencies Performance measures Program evaluation DEA Mobile Enforcement Team Program Other Written Product A01035 This report discusses the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) Program. GAO found that since the MET Program was established in 1995, DEA has enhanced its management of the program and provided for greater headquarters oversight and monitoring. In implementing the program and carrying out deployments, the field division METs generally complied with some of the pertinent requirements and guidelines that GAO reviewed. However, because some DEA headquarters files did not contain adequate documentation, GAO could not determine whether the METs consistently and adequately assessed the requesting local law enforcement agencies' abilities to address, on their own, the drug and related violence problems for which DEA's MET assistance was requested. DEA expects METs to focus on specific, targeted gangs/organizations in the geographic areas in which the METs are deployed and that deployments will generally continue until the targeted individuals are arrested and/or the targeted drug gangs/organizations have been disrupted or dismantled. Consistent with the nature and objectives of the MET Program, MET investigators focused primarily on street-level drug dealers and were mostly local and regional in scope. DEA collects data for a variety of performance measures to assess the results of individual MET deployments and the overall MET Program. It reports internally and externally on program results for some of the performance measures. However, the measures have problems and limitations related primarily to the inconsistency in data collection. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-482/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-482.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-482/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-482.pdf GAO-01-482 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-482 Other Written Product GAO-01-482; DEA's Mobile Enforcement Teams: Steps Taken to Enhance Program Management, but More Can Be Done; Drug trafficking Federal/state relations Gangs Law enforcement agencies Performance measures Program evaluation DEA Mobile Enforcement Team Program