The Individual Drug Seizures (IDS) collection

and the Drugs Monitoring Platform (DMP

Andrea Kiselinchev Oterová

andrea.oterova@un.org
 IDS data: collection, reporting and

dissemination tools

✓ IDS: definition and mandate

✓ IDS collection template: content and criteria

✓ Reporting/submission of - DXP platform

✓ Dissemination of IDS data - DMP platform

 IDS mandated data collection

IDS – a singular interception of drug trafficking taking place within the national territory at a specific
place and point in time. It is data for a single event rather than data at the aggregate level as is the case of the
ARQ module on seizures and trafficking (A07). IDS represents seizure data at the individual level on a number
of fields including date, drug quantity, trafficking route and trafficker data.

Aggregate (ARQ) vs single event (IDS) data

IDS - A seizure of 10 kg of cocaine taking place in country X at a specific place

(airport, residence, etc.) at a certain point in time on a specific day-each Mandate:
individual drug seizure event
International Drug Conventions
ARQ - A total of 800 kg of cocaine seized in country X during 2022- aggregation of 1961, 1971, 1988
several individual drug seizure events-a cumulative figure-includes IDS event
data
 IDS template: data collection tool

- Sheet with information on

contributors and metadata
Operation vs IDS, (coverage-time, geographical,
Date and location Drug information agencies, duplicates)-add
cooperation information here please
- Sheet for reporting data on
each IDS
- Variable lists, including Drug
Details-transport, List and Country list
Traffickers/arrested concealment, Trafficking route - After laboratory analysis-
persons preferred
location type… - Centralized in one file when
possible
 IDS questionnaire template: core criteria for data reporting

Use of narrative
column and
Streamlined variable lists Completeness
template and and accuracy
guidelines Our team is ready to assist
you: unodc-ids@un.org
IDS reporting
Comparability criteria
and Real-time/near
consistency real-time data

- Each individual case and NOT monthly summaries/aggregate data

- Specific place/location and time
- e.g., total of cocaine seized when police encounters a car with drugs, the navy intercepts a vessel carrying drugs
in a specific location at a specific time
SUBMISSION OF DATA

https://dxp.unodc.org/

Data eXchange Platform-DXP

 IDS reporting – how to submit-https://dxp.unodc.org/
IDS – submission-countries send IDS data using the DXP portal
✓ IDS module-upload of a whole file-not each data point
✓ Submissions throughout the year-quarterly
✓ Focal points can assign users-4 submissions per year

Data coverage Deadline

Quarter 1 30-Jun
Quarter 2 30-Sep
Quarter 3 31-Dec
Quarter 4 31-Mar
IDS – Reporting data through the DXP
User

Country
IDS – Reporting data through the DXP

Country name
Country

Country name
IDS – Reporting data through the DXP

Commnunication

Upload of IDS files

Country name
 IDS data submissions to UNODC
104 countries submitted since 2022 IDS submissions in the region: 2021-2023
0
North America 1
1
14
Western and Central Europe 18
19

5
South-Eastern Europe 7
8

2
Eastern Europe 3
3
5
West and Central Africa 2
6

0
Southern Africa 2
4

1
East Africa 1
4

IDS submissions 2021 2022 2023 0 5 10 15 20

East Africa 1 4 1 2023 2022 2021
Southern Africa 2 4 0
West and Central Africa 2 6 5
Eastern Europe 3 3 2
South-Eastern Europe 7 8 5
Western and Central Europe 18 19 14
North America 1 1 0
Total 34 45 27

Note: 2023 data submissions in progress until March 2024

 DATA DISSEMINATION TOOL

https://dmp.unodc.org/

✓ Overview

✓ Advantages of the system

✓ The data

✓ Products
 Drugs Monitoring Platform (DMP): https://dmp.unodc.org/

o Online geo-coded system with over 570,000 events Global seizures: May 2022 – May 2023
✓ Visualization and dissemination of seizure data
✓ Tool for monitoring drug trafficking trends,
routes, modus operandi
✓ Common system, secure data sharing
✓ Multi-source dataset, real-time data

o Target Audience:
✓ Law Enforcement, Analysts-Member States
 Advantages of the system for the users

✓ Versatility to monitor and improve understanding

of evolving threats/changes in drug markets
✓ Analytical and research tool for UNODC/users
✓ Access to sub-national, regional, global pictures
✓ Flexible data collection-continuous uploads
✓ Real/near real-time data
✓ Free tool for users
✓ New dashboards and interactive features
 DMP products-dashboards and reports
Data Dissemination and enhanced user experience:
• Numerous analytical dashboards
• Briefs on drug trafficking/tailored analyses
• Continuous data reporting/publishing
 The Data

DMP seizure data (counts) by drug group and region: 2019-2023

70000

60000 Distribution of DMP data by source: 2020-2023

50000

40000
4%
18%
30000
IDS
20000
Open-source
10000 78%
Partners
0

Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania/Other

 World Drug Report (WDR)
Cocaine trafficking: 2020 -2022 – Transit regions and new markets in Africa, Asia, East and South-east Europe
 World Drug Report (WDR)

Methamphetamine trafficking in North America: 2019-2022 and 2021-2022

 DMP dashboards

Cocaine trafficking in West

Africa in the recent years
(2020-2022)
 The Power of Data
Assist international community by providing high-quality, essential evidence to
inform policy-making and support operational action

• Different incidents make it more valuable to draw connections and links

• More advantageous for law enforcement and policy makers

• Clandestine drug laboratories/production sites
• Arrests (for drug trafficking or possibly other crimes)

• Extend to commodities of concern or regions of interest (Wildlife trafficking,

firearms trafficking, tobacco, falsified medical products)
 Thank you!
unodc-ids@un.org
andrea.oterova@un.org

IDS data collection DXP platform DMP platform