Nowadays it seems impossible to talk about online drug-trafficking within any country, as the system of illegal transactions has already acquired global scale. As a result, there were established different structures in different countries which were capable to stand against the online drug-trafficking.

Dipartimento Politiche Antidroga (Dpa) – Department of Antidrug Policy, which is the part of the Council of Ministers, was created for this purpose in Italy. Dpa has its own webpages on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as well as nearly 20 websites which give information about the danger of drugs and promote healthy lifestyle. The National Early Warning System, created in the framework of Dpa, carries on the monitoring of websites containing propaganda, advertising and offering narcotic drugs.

Dpa collaborates with NAS (Italian Carabinieri) and AIFA ( The Italian Medicines Agency). Dpa with NAS and AIFA identify and close websites that offer narcotic drugs, and providers then are obliged to block access to these sites.

Since 2011 the National Early Warning System of Dpa has been monitoring the websites that distribute drugs online. According to Dpa, since then there were identified about 500 sites that conducted drug trafficking. 64% of them were closed, while hosting providers of other websites just deleted the offers.

With the help of monitoring system, Dpa defines new directions in the production, supply and consumption of drugs, as well as “taste” of consumers. According to Dpa, that helps them in taking preventive measures and assisting the police in conducting raids.

Together with Italian parents’ associations (AGE и MOIGE), Dpa has developed a special application for computers, smartphones and tablets, that prohibits the access to sites with suspicious content with the mention of drugs and medicines. The program is designed to protect children and young people from similar online resources. This service is regularly updated, up-loading “black list” of the National Early Warning System. When you try to go to the unreliable site, link is redirected to parents, the entrance to the site for the child device is locked.

At the end of May 2014 Dpa introduced a new system for monitoring the Internet in order to identify new drugs, their distribution and delivery via postal services, which was highly appreciated by Europol in the fight against drug trafficking, weapons and child pornography.

Source: rspectr.com