National Drug Control System

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Gert Eidherr Global Project Manager,
ITS Information Technology Service United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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UNODC Substantive Applications

• NDS (National Drug Control System)
• PEN Online (automated online system for the
  exchange of pre-export notifications)
• goAML (Anti Money Laundering System)
• goCASE
• CJAT (Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit)
• UNTOC / UNCAC Tools

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UNODC Substantive Applications

• PEN Online (automated online system for the
  exchange of pre-export notifications) developed
  by UNODC / INCB and used by Member States
  exporting precursor chemicals to alert the
  national competent authorities in the importing
  country with the details of the export
  transaction. The system facilitates full
  electronic reply to acknowledge receipt and
  notify the exporting country of clearance to
  export. An electronic copy is sent to INCB by
  default.
• goAML (Anti-Money Laundering and Counter
  Terrorist Financing System) developed by UNODC to
  assist Financial Intelligence Units to collect
  and, analyze financial data and disseminate
  financial intelligence packages to relevant law
  enforcement agencies.
• goCASE (Investigation Case Management System)
  developed by UNODC to assist law enforcement
  agencies in managing investigations of criminal
  cases in general and financial crimes in
  particular up to the level of passing the case
  files and evidence to prosecution.
• CJAT (Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit)
  developed by UNODC to assist assessment team(s)
  in evaluating any criminal justice system,
  recording the findings and generating the draft
  assessment report. CJAT allows for electronic
  data sharing of the findings as well as
  maintaining a database of assessments done to
  enhance any future assessments.
• UNTOC / UNCAC Tools is a system being developed
  by UNODC to assist Member States to self evaluate
  their degree of compliance with the United
  Nations Transnational Organized Crime Convention
  and the United Nations Anti-Corruption
  Convention.

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What is NDS?

• A Management Information System (MIS) for
  national and international drug control
• Automates range of day-to-day drug control
  activities (import/export permits, licensing of
  companies, domestic transactions, company
  management)
• Automates compliance with drug control
  conventions on narcotics, psychotropic
  substances and precursor chemicals
• Enables exchange of data electronically on
  national and international levels and fosters
  interoperability between different systems using
  XML standard -PEN system

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Who Should Use NDS?

• Drug control authorities regulating narcotics,
  psychotropic substances, precursor chemicals
• Drug control authorities that deal with
  sufficient numbers of transactions per year
• Drug control authorities that have the technical
  infrastructure and commitment to sustain the use
  of NDS
• OR
• Who can partner with other bodies which provide
  regional services over the Internet

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NDS Global
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NDS Statistics -Diazepam World total versus
covered by NDS
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NDS Statistics -Codeine World total versus
covered by NDS
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NDS demonstration to OAS / CICAD 2003 session
April 2003

• Presentation of NDS to OAS/CICAD 30th April 2003
• Unanimously agreement by member states that NDS
  shall be utilized as the standard tool for drug
  control management
• Agreement that OAS/CICAD will host a remote
  server for countries not having sufficient
  infrastructure / technical support
• Strengthen NDS support with regional support
  center (Mexico)
• Cooperation with governments (e.g. Mexico XCAI86)

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NDS Status in OAS Member States 2009

• Active cooperation with 16 OAS Member States

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NDS Statistics - global

• 50 countries working with/requested NDS
• 42 countries now in production
• 60 countries in production by end 2010
• 70 target countries

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Why NDS?

• NDS is a standard system that is now recognized
  worldwide
• NDS can be used via the Internet
• NDS combines the control of narcotics,
  psychotropic substances and precursor chemicals
  in one system
• NDS combines national and international drug
  control in one system
• NDS permits data exchange from/to INCB and
  between member states using XML (e.g.
  assessment/estimates, PEN Online)

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Why NDS?

• NDS enables the monitoring of nationally
  controlled substances
• NDS is customizable to your national needs,
  including the data to be entered
• NDS is available in English, Spanish, French,
  Russian, Portuguese could be implemented with a
  few weeks effort and supports 80 other national
  languages
• NDS is regularly updated in accordance with
  changing user requirements (5th User Group
  Meeting 2003 sponsored by Canada, February 2006
  expert group meeting, 6th user group meeting in
  May 2007 Mexico) and changes in international
  drug control regimes

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NDS 6 Sophisticated Reporting
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NDS 6 Import/Export redesigned linkage with
PEN
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Customization (Import Export)
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Customization (Import Export)
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Customization (Import Export)
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UNODCs Commitment

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  is committed to NDS
• Currently 4 NDS staff (2 in Vienna, 1 in
  Uzbekistan, 1 in Mexico)
• Cooperation with OAS / CICAD
• Attain full operational status with current users
  of NDS

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What does the UN provide?

• NDS software free of charge
• Installation of NDS and on-site training
• Customization of NDS according to your national
  standards
• Assistance in migrating your existing data to NDS
  
• Support in using NDS
• NDS website http//nds.unodc.org
• TeamViewer Remote support http//www.unvienna.org/
  tv/
• SLAs (Service level agreements) to ensure
  immediate response and guarantee of service

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NDS Web system
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Thank You!
Gert Eidherr Global Project Manager,
ITS Information Technology Service United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime