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Viewing cable 06HANOI748, AMBASSADOR MEETS COUNTERNARCOTICS TASK FORCE IN SON

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06HANOI748 2006-04-03 07:31 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Hanoi
VZCZCXRO0002
RR RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM
DE RUEHHI #0748/01 0930731
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 030731Z APR 06
FM AMEMBASSY HANOI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 1316
INFO RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 0847
RUEHUNV/USMISSION UNVIE VIENNA 0154
RUEHZS/ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HANOI 000748 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS, INL/AAE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON SNAR VM
SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR MEETS COUNTERNARCOTICS TASK FORCE IN SON 
LA PROVINCE 
 
 
HANOI 00000748  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. (SBU) Summary:  On a March 14-15 visit to Son La 
Province, the Ambassador received a briefing on U.S. funded, 
UNODC-administered counternarcotics efforts in the region. 
Since the inception of this effort, coordination has 
improved among local, regional and cross-border security 
officials, and a number of significant drug rings have beQ 
broken up.  Qe primary drugs passing through Son La are 
heroin, opium and methamphetamines.  According to local 
officials, the biggest needs for future enforcement are more 
support equipment and more training in investigative 
techniques for officers.  End Summary. 
 
2. (SBU) On March 14, the Ambassador met with Le Trong Loan, 
the Director of the Son La Joint Counternarcotics Task Force 
Unit (TFU) established under the UNODC G-55 counternarcotics 
program.  Loan explained that he is also the head of the 
provincial counternarcotics department in the Department of 
Public Security.  The TFU also includes members of the 
Department of Border Security and the Customs Department. 
Loan said that the situation in Son La is difficult because 
the geography and topography of this mountainous province 
makes it ideal for drug smuggling along the 220 kilometer 
border it shares with Laos.  The GVN has identified Son La 
as a focal point for the counternarcotics effort in the 
northwest.  Son La is a transit area for trafficked drugs 
rather than a net consumer, although the TFU does not know 
the real extent of either problem since the most cases are 
undetected. 
 
History 
------- 
 
3. (SBU) Loan noted that the TFU was founded in 2005.  It 
currently has ten officers: six members come from the 
Ministry of Public Security (MPS), two members represent the 
Border Army and two participate on behalf of the Customs 
Department.  The TFU is based in the provincial MPS 
Department and has three major tasks: aiding MPS drug 
investigations, border surveillance and aiding Customs 
Department smuggling investigations.  The main drugs found 
in the area are opium, heroin and methamphetamines, of which 
heroin seems to be the greatest threat.  Loan said that 
since the TFU's inception counternarcotics efforts in Son La 
have improved greatly.  TFU training has already improved 
the investigative techniques of fifty Son La police 
officers.  New equipment provided under the project, 
including cars, motorbikes, radios and cameras, has also 
helped officers conduct investigations.  The TFU has 
improved cooperation between different departments and has 
also helped arrange regional meetings to share information 
on drug crimes.  This cooperation has helped the TFU 
identify and break up some important smuggling rings which 
had been operating in Son La for years, although most cases 
are discovered by tips.  The TFU also meets annually with 
local security officials in the two Laotian provinces that 
border Son La. 
 
Successes 
--------- 
 
4. (SBU) Loan stated that since the TFU was established, it 
has investigated 620 cases involving 876 subjects.  They 
seized 123.8kg of hQoin, 50.475kgQf opium and 12,504 
methamphetamine pills.  The TFU has also confiscated two 
grenades, three AK-47s, six radios, thirty-eight mobile 
phones, six cars, 122 motorbikes, VND 1 billion (USD 
63,000), USD 48,000, 3,000 Laotian Kip, and 13 taels of 
gold. The TFU unit is able to keep seized equipment for 
liquidation by a provincial board that gives the proceeds to 
the TFU's budget.  The most recent arrest was of two Chinese 
men caught in Moc Chau district with 2,008 methamphetamine 
pills.  In all, Loan said that the counternarcotics capacity 
of the provincial authorities has improved.  The amount of 
methamphetamine seized is already three hundred times 
greater on an annual basis than before, he said. 
 
Future needs 
------------ 
 
5. (SBU) Loan identified two main needs for the TFU in the 
immediate future.  First, the TFU needs more equipment, 
particularly more cars, motorbikes, walkie-talkie radios 
capable of operating in a mountainous environment and money 
to hire more officers.  Secondly, TFU officers need more 
training in investigative techniques to become better 
criminologists. 
 
 
HANOI 00000748  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
6.  (SBU) The Ambassador noted that law enforcement and drug 
interdiction is in the interests of both the United States 
and Vietnam.  Son La, with its long border and excellent 
highway (Highway 6, which also carries the sinister nickname 
"the Heroin Highway" because it is a pipeline from 
opium/heroin source areas to Hanoi), is clearly on the 
frontlines of this effort.  This is a problem that requires 
joint action because it threatens everyone.  We are glad to 
see that U.S. funding has been well spent by the GVN on TFUs 
like this one, the Ambassador emphasized. 
 
MARINE