Special Operations Unit (SOD)

The Special Operations Division (“SOD”) is a multi-agency body designed to identify and dismantle significant international and domestic drug trafficking and money laundering organizations.  NDDS, through its Special Operations Unit, coordinates SOD investigations with Assistant United States Attorneys across the country to ensure that each district involved in a nationwide investigation is informed as to the actions taking place in the other districts and the interrelationship of each district in the overall criminal conspiracy.  NDDS ensures that each district agrees to a coordinated plan of attack, so that large, nationwide, and international trafficking groups are taken down in well-timed enforcement actions.  The NDDS Special Operations Unit counsels and advises NDDS’ leadership on a daily basis to integrate, deconflict and leverage resources towards accomplishing the Department of Justice’s Counternarcotics/Transnational Criminal Organization (“TCO”) mission.