ORGANIZED CRIME PROGRAM - VIOLENT GANGS - DRUG PROGRAM ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREA FRONT RANGE TASK FORCE SOUTHERN COLORADO VIOLENT GANGS SAFE STREETS TASK FORCE

Organized Crime Program

The Denver Division investigates Organized Crime (OC) Criminal Enterprises through the FBI supported Colorado Organized Crime Task Force (COCTF). COCTF's top three priorities are as follows: Italian OC, Asian OC, and Eurasian OC.

Violent Gangs

Within the Denver metropolitan area, violent gangs are investigated through the FBI's partnership with the Metro Gang Task Force (MGTF). The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) supports MGTF. The mission of the MGTF is to provide a collaborative federal, state, and local law enforcement effort to identify, target, and address organized gang related groups involved in drug trafficking and/or violence. In Colorado Springs, Colorado, violent gangs are addressed through the FBI's Colorado Springs Safe Streets Violent Gang Task Force.

Drug Program

The Denver Division investigates major drug criminal organizations through its partnership with the Front Range Task Force and RMHIDTA. The Front Range Task Force's mission is to promote a collaborated multi-agency effort to identify, investigate, and dismantle major drug trafficking organizations operating in the Denver metropolitan/Front Range area, with an emphasis on methamphetamine and Southwest border trafficking. To address emerging criminal justice issues as they relate to narcotics trafficking throughout the Front Range region, encouraging maximum cooperation between all law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies, and insuring the safety of both police personnel and the public, accomplished in an efficient manner within constitution guidelines.

RMHIDTA - Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area

RMHIDTA is a federally funded program with oversight from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

RMHIDTA has oversight over Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.

The RMHIDTA Mission Statement: The mission statement is to reduce the availability of illicit drugs and drug related violence within the region; defeat the illegal efforts to move drug activity and drug related violence to this region to avoid increased law enforcement efforts in other areas; reduce the amount of drugs moved through this region to other portions of the country; encourage and support serious drug demand reduction and violence prevention programs.

Front Range Task Force (FRTF)

The mission of the Front Range Task Force (FRTF) is to promote a collaborated multi-agency effort to identify, investigate, and dismantle major drug trafficking organizations operating in the Denver metropolitan/Front Range area, with an emphasis on methamphetamines and Southwest border trafficking. Also, to address emerging criminal justice issues as they relate to narcotics trafficking throughout the Front Range region, encouraging maximum cooperation between all law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies, and insuring the safety of both police personnel and the public, accomplished in an efficient manner within constitutional guidelines.

The FRTF was also established to identify and ultimately convict medium to high-level drug traffickers, and to seize assets and proceeds derived from drug trafficking, by using the effective methods of a task force approach.

Southern Colorado Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force (SCVGSSTF)

In January 2006, the Southern Colorado Violent Gang Safe Streets Task Force (SCVGSSTF) was initiated in the Colorado Springs Resident Agency. The Task Force consists of members from the Colorado Springs Police Department, El Paso County Sheriff's Office, the State of Colorado Department of Corrections, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the FBI. Its mission is to jointly identify, disrupt and dismantle existing and emerging violent criminal enterprises operating in Southern Colorado, including the Colorado Springs and Pueblo metropolitan areas and prison gangs operating within the penal institutions in Southern Colorado.