narcotics unit
Police drug division
A narcotics unit is a specialized division within a police department or law enforcement agency that investigates drug-related crimes.
Officers in narcotics units conduct undercover operations, track trafficking networks, and make arrests for possession and distribution: The narcotics unit busted a meth lab in the warehouse district.
Often shortened to narcotics or narco.
- drug enforcementPolicing illegal substances
- undercoverSecretly engaged in espionage
- plain clothesNon-uniform civilian dress
- bustFailure or sculpture
- sting operationDeceptive arrest scheme
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- Criminal Investigationdetective, crime scene, crime investigation, forensics, investigator
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- crimefighterscops, detectives, FBI, police, sheriffs
- law enforcementFBI, police station, patrolmen, police officer, cop
- Police UnitsSWAT, SWAT team, vice squad, bomb squad, beat cops
- drug enforcementDEA, drug bust, drug raid, interdiction, trafficking
narcotics unitinternal affairs
Officers investigating officers
administrative services · homicide unit · vice squad · fraud squad · community policing
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