Formed in March 2012, The Border Enforcement Security Task
Force (BEST) Nogales Tunnel Task Force (NTTF) is
composed of full time members from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Border Patrol (OBP), Nogales
Police Department (NPD), the Santa Cruz County HIDTA, and the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA).
BEST Nogales TTF is responsible for
identifying, investigating and eliminating illicit subterranean tunnels in one
of the nation's busiest border areas with Mexico and combating the Transnational
Criminal Organizations (TCOs) that finance, build, and use them.
Here is a look at one of these drug tunnels.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement video by Charles
Reed, February 27, 2014 Edited by USA Patriotism!
BEST is a
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE)Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)-led,
multi-agency Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
initiative to identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal
organizations that seek to exploit vulnerabilities along
U.S. borders..
There are currently 34 BEST units deployed
across the country, covering major seaports and southern and
northern border regions. BEST units are composed of more
than 750 law enforcement officers from over 100 federal,
state, local, tribal, and foreign law enforcement and
intelligence resources.
Drug
Tunnel In Nogales
