OCDETF To Be Ended

 

 

The current administration reportedly is shutting down a Department of Justice task force that has focused on dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels, and human trafficking rings. The task force was known as the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, or OCDETF. Leaders of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces were given until Sept. 30 to shut down operations,

The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces was established in 1982. The DOJ’s website says the task force has been the centerpiece of the attorney general’s strategy to combat transnational organized crime and to reduce the availability of illicit narcotics in the nation by using a prosecutor-led, multiagency approach to enforcement.

It is likely that this task force may be reorganized under the Department of Homeland Security in the future, but no details are currently available. 

Many scanner listeners will recall that the OCDETF had several radio frequencies assigned to them thru the Department of Justice allocations. They usually appeared in any Justice Department radio programing, but they were known to appear in some DHS agency radios as well. Here are the channels from the FBI D zone:

164.5500         N167   D01 OCDETF, repeater (168.8625 MHz in)
164.5500         N167   D02 OCDETF, simplex