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### Viewing cable 06THEHAGUE1510, NETHERLANDS: NARCOTICS CERTIFICATION UPDATE

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    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    R 071216Z JUL 06
    FM AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 6262
    INFO RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS 0338
    RUEAWJB/DOJ WASHDC
    RUEHZL/EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
    RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING 1944
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    06THEHAGUE1510

    Embassy The Hague

    UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

    06STATE78495

    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 THE HAGUE 001510

    SIPDIS

    SENSITIVE

    SIPDIS

    DEPT FOR INL/PC - LMCKECHNIE, INL/T
    DEPT ALSO FOR EUR/ERA, EUR/PGI, EUR/UBI
    ONDCP FOR CHARLOTTE SISSON
    DOJ FOR OIA
    USEU FOR WAGNER AND DOJ
    DEA HQS FOR OEE, OIE

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: SNAR KCRM PINS PREL NL
    SUBJECT: NETHERLANDS: NARCOTICS CERTIFICATION UPDATE

    REF: A. STATE 78495

    ¶B. THE HAGUE 814
    ¶C. THE HAGUE 1415

    THE HAGUE 00001510 001.2 OF 003

    ¶1. (U) Summary. In preparation for this year's interagency
    review for narcotics certification, Post submits the
    following update on Dutch anti-narcotics efforts and police-
    to-police cooperation. The Dutch remain focused on stemming
    the production and trade of ecstasy and are developing a
    second five year plan to deal with ecstasy. Police-to-
    police cooperation has continued to improve. End Summary.

    Recent Counter-Narcotics Developments
    -------------------------------------

    ¶2. (SBU) According to an unpublished report by the Dutch
    National Crime Squad, Dutch police seized 1.85 million
    ecstasy (MDMA) tablets and 220 kilograms of MDMA powder in
    the Netherlands in 2005, a major decrease from the 5.6
    million tablets and 303 kilograms of powder seized in 2004.
    Dutch police estimate that 1 kilogram of powder can be used
    to produce 10,000 MDMA tablets.

    ¶3. (U) Tom Driessen, head of the National Crime Squad told
    ONDCP Director John Walters during Walters' April visit to
    The Hague that the establishment of the National Crime
    Squad, which is responsible for the investigation of
    organized crime, in early 2004 had significantly improved
    the effectiveness of the Dutch police against international
    criminal groups involved in narcotics production and
    trafficking. He said this was due in large part to the
    enhanced ability of the police to cooperate with the U.S.
    and other international partners; effective cooperation had
    been more difficult previously, when investigation of
    serious crime was decentralized among 25 police regions.
    Driessen credited improved intelligence and investigations
    of money and trade flows for the Dutch ability to better
    combat ecstasy production and trade. He acknowledged that
    resource limitations continued to hamper their efforts to
    track and interdict illicit money flows. Walters commended
    the Dutch for their successful efforts to curb the ecstasy
    trade.

    ¶4. (U) Encouraged by the success of the initial GONL five-
    year plan (2002-2006) to combat ecstasy production and
    distribution, the Justice Ministry is currently developing a
    follow-on five-year ecstasy plan. The interagency plan will
    also involve the Interior, Finance, Defense and Health
    ministries. A June 6 EUROPOL Organized Crime Threat
    Analysis identified the production and distribution of
    synthetic drugs by organized crime groups based in Belgium
    and the Netherlands as the top law enforcement priority for
    the Dutch. Justice Ministry officials welcomed the EUROPOL
    appraisal as helpful to their efforts to ensure that
    combating the ecstasy trade will remain a top law
    enforcement priority.

    Police-to-Police Cooperation
    -----------------------------

    ¶5. (SBU) While Dutch judicial system and privacy
    restrictions continue to hamper direct police-to-police
    intelligence sharing in the absence of a formal Mutual Legal
    Assistance Treaty (MLAT) request, progress is being made on
    effective operational cooperation. As a result of the April
    2005 Next Steps bilateral law enforcement discussions,
    since October 2005 two DEA agents have been co-located
    with the National Crime Squad cocaine unit in The Hague,
    which specializes in South American and Caribbean narcotics
    investigation. Under the co-location arrangement, DEA
    agents have access to the unit's intelligence and tactical
    officers, and are able to pass and receive police-to-police
    information in an expeditious manner. Since the co-location
    began, joint investigations have led to the seizure of
    roughly 6,200 kilograms of cocaine and the arrest of 32
    defendants. DEA reached agreement in June 2006 to co-locate
    a third agent with the National Crime Squad's Helmond unit
    in the southern Netherlands. Co-location with the Helmond

    THE HAGUE 00001510 002.2 OF 003

    unit, which is expected to begin this summer, was a top
    objective of DEA because the Helmond unit specializes in
    ecstasy and precursor chemical investigations.

    ¶6. (SBU) Since late 2005, Dutch police have also responded
    positively to DEA requests to conduct controlled deliveries
    without an MLAT request; previously, they had turned down
    all such informal requests. In the first six months of
    2006, the Dutch have conducted six controlled deliveries of
    cocaine at the request of DEA on a police-to-police basis.
    U.S. police conducted one controlled delivery of 3,700
    ecstasy tablets at the request of the Dutch. This was the
    only request presented by the Dutch in the past seven
    months, but illustrates their interest in expanding law
    enforcement cooperation.

    ¶7. (SBU) DEA credits the ongoing successful information
    sharing between Dutch police and the El Paso Intelligence
    Center (EPIC) for improving police-to-police cooperation in
    the Netherlands. Over 6,000 names have been shared in the
    Schiphol Blacklist program in which EPIC and Dutch police
    share names of known or suspected drug traffickers for entry
    in the other's database. During a June 29 meeting to review
    the Blacklist program, DEA, Dutch police and Justice
    Ministry officials all agreed that drug trafficker data is
    flowing smoothly and that the program is working well.

    ¶8. (SBU) Improved coordination between DEA The Hague and
    Dutch police has led to several recent major busts,
    including the seizure of 46 kilograms of cocaine at Schiphol
    airport on June 19, 2006. In the Schiphol case, the Dutch
    Royal Military Police (KMAR), which is responsible for
    border control, acted on a DEA tip to intercept two arriving
    couriers, who will be prosecuted in the Netherlands on
    charges of importation of a controlled substance.

    ¶9. (SBU) On May 31 and June 1, 2006, the DEA office in The
    Hague, in conjunction with other DEA offices and the Royal
    Dutch National Police (KLPD) executed international arrest
    and search warrants against an international ecstasy trade
    and money laundering ring. Of the ten suspects arrested,
    eight will be prosecuted in the United States and two will
    be prosecuted in the Netherlands. The KLPD National Crime
    Squad unit in Helmond provided DEA with outstanding support
    throughout the two year investigation.

    ¶10. (U) Dutch authorities attended a DEA-sponsored precursor
    chemical strategy conference in Hong Kong in February 2006
    and took part in DEA's International Drug Enforcement
    Conference (IDEC) in Montreal in May 2006.

    International Cooperation
    -------------------------

    ¶11. (U) Bilateral cooperation on demand reduction research
    has continued in the past year, with scientific exchanges
    between the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and
    Development (ZonMW) and the Trimbos Institute and U.S.
    National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). ONDCP Director
    Walters and Health Minister Hoogervorst agreed to consider
    expanding joint research to include studies on long-term
    drug consumption during Walters's April 2006 visit.

    ¶12. (SBU) The Dutch Justice Ministry signed a MOU with the
    Chinese government to expedite the sharing of customs
    information and better track shipments of precursor
    chemicals in 2004. The Dutch continue to negotiate a MOU
    with the Chinese that would cover direct police-to-police
    operational cooperation in tracking precursor chemicals.
    Justice Ministry officials acknowledge that the negotiations
    are proceeding very slowly. The Dutch are also debating
    internally how extensive the MOU should be, due to concerns
    about entering into a broad cooperative police agreement
    with a country that has a poor human rights record.

    ¶13. (U) The Dutch government hosted a conference on
    enhancing EU anti-drug cooperation in the Caribbean in
    February 2006. The GONL is pressing the European Commission

    THE HAGUE 00001510 003.2 OF 003

    and member states to increase their financial commitments to
    counter-narcotics efforts in the Caribbean region.

    Comment
    -------

    ¶14. (U) The Dutch government has continued to make
    substantial progress in the last year against ecstasy
    production and trafficking. In particular, they are more
    effectively targeting international criminal organizations
    involved in the trade. Police-to-police cooperation and
    information sharing has also improved significantly; the
    recent agreement on the co-location of DEA agents in a
    second key National Crime Squad drug unit is expected to
    result in additional successful joint investigations. End
    Comment.

    ARNALL

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