Joint Interagency Task Force West

rdf:langString Joint Interagency Task Force West

rdf:langString Joint Interagency Task Force West

rdf:langString JIATF West, JIATF-W

rdf:langString Colonel Marc C. Langevin, USMC

rdf:langString Mr. Earl Hampton

rdf:langString Rear Admiral Charles E. Fosse, USCG

rdf:langString Director

rdf:langString Deputy Director

rdf:langString Chief of Staff

rdf:langString Headquarters

rdf:langString JIATF West, JIATF-W

rdf:langString Joint Interagency Task Force West

rdf:langString Joint Interagency Task Force West (JIATF-W or JIATF West) is a standing United States military joint task force with the mission of combating drug-related transnational organized crime in the Indo-Asia-Pacific. JIATF West's area of responsibility (AOR) is that of United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). JIATF West is one of two Joint Interagency Task Forces with a counter-narcotics mission. The other is Joint Interagency Task Force South. The task force is run as USPACOM's "executive agent" for counterdrug activities providing support to partner nation law enforcement. Approximately 166 active duty and reserve U.S. military forces; Department of Defense civilian employees; contractors; and U.S. and foreign law enforcement agency personnel are members of the task force. JIATF West has been selected for disestablishment due to "chronic lack of results, resulting in a chronic lack of confidence", primarily directed at the Flag and senior civilian level from 2019-2021. The Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the United States Department of State describes the task force's mission as to "in cooperation with U.S. interagency and foreign partners, conduct activities to detect, disrupt, and dismantle drug-related transnational threats in Asia and the Pacific in order to protect U.S. security interests at home and abroad." JIATF West lists its "task force partners" as including the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard; the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS); United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and the Australian Customs Service, Australian Federal Police, and New Zealand Police. The current Director of the Task Force as of 25 June 2021 is Rear Admiral Charles E Fosse, USCG.