Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency

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Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency
Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency area
Area	Scotland
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Operations
Formed	2001
HQ	Paisley
Officers
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Stations
Director	Graham Pearson, QPM

Website	Agency web site

The Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency (SDEA) is a national police agency in Scotland responsible for disrupting and dismantling serious organised crime groups; by taking the profit out of such crime and reducing the demand for such products. It works along side other police forces in Scotland and is answerable to Scottish Ministers through the Common Police Services Board. The Director of the agency is responsible to Scottish Ministers and the Scottish Parliament for financial and administrative matters.

1 Officials
2 Units
3 Future
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Officials

The SDEA is headed by a Director and Deputy Director, who with members of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland form the Policy Group (the Executive of the SDEA.) They are assisted by the Drugs Co-ordinator.

As of November 2005 the Director is:Graeme Pearson QPM MA
And the Deputy Director is Gordon Meldrum [1]

[edit] Units

The SDEA has created several units and officials responsible for expanding its role in preventing serious crime in Scotland:

Drugs Strategy Unit
Scottish Money Laundering Unit
Scottish Witness Liaison Unit
National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (Scotland)

[edit] Future

The Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 [2] will put the SDEA on a statutory footing and rename it as the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency which will be funded through the Scottish Police Services Authority.