Narcotics Control Bureau

The Narcotics Control Bureau (abbr. NCB) is an Indian central law enforcement and intelligence agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The agency is tasked with combating drug trafficking and the use of illegal substances under the provisions of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.

Established in 1986, it is responsible for coordination with the Indian state governments and other central departments, implementation of India's international obligations with regard to drug trafficking, and assisting international and foreign drug law enforcement agencies.^[1][2]

Formation

The Narcotics Control Bureau was created on 17 March 1986 to enable the full implementation of The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 and fight its violation through the Prevention of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988.^[2] The law was established to fulfill India's treaty obligations under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. Officers in this organisation are drawn from Indian Revenue Service, Indian Police Service and Paramilitary forces in addition to directly recruited members.^[3]

Organisation

The Narcotics Control Bureau's national headquarters is located in Delhi, the national capital. Its field units and offices are organised by zones and are located in Mumbai, Indore, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow, Jodhpur, Chandigarh, Jammu, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Guwahati and Patna.^[1]

The Director General of NCB is mostly an officer from the Indian Police Service (IPS) or the Indian Revenue Service (IRS).^{[citation needed]} Apart from the direct feeder grade, officers in this organisation are also drawn from Indian Revenue Service, Indian Police Service and other Paramilitary forces.^{[citation needed]}

The Narcotics Control Bureau is also represented on the Economic Intelligence Council.^[4] NCB is affiliated to Home Ministry, which was made responsible for administering The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.^[2] The NCB is outside the ambit of the Right to information Act under Section 24(1) of the RTI act 2005.

Functions

The chief purpose of the Narcotics Control Bureau is to fight drug trafficking on an all-India level.^[2] It works in close cooperation with the Customs and Central Excise/GST, State Police Department, State Excise and Prohibition Department, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) and other Indian intelligence and law enforcement agencies both at the national and states level.^[1] The NCB also provides resources and training to the personnel of India's Drug Law Enforcement Agencies in fighting drug trafficking.^[2] The NCB also monitors India's frontiers to track down points where smuggling activities take place with foreign traffickers.^[2]

See also

• Central Bureau of Investigation, anti organised crime which are international, multi-state or multi-agency
• Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, anti-smuggling
• Enforcement Directorate, anti economic crimes
• Financial Intelligence Unit, anti money laundering
• National Investigation Agency, anti terrorism
• NIA Most Wanted
• List of Indian intelligence agencies

References

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Ministry of Home Affairs (India)

Departments

Department of Internal Security	Indian Police Service Intelligence Bureau Central Reserve Police Force Bureau of Police Research and Development Central Industrial Security Force National Security Guard National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences National Crime Records Bureau National Civil Defence College National Investigation Agency National Crime Investigation Bureau North Eastern Council North Eastern Police Academy Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy Assam Rifles Rashtriya Rifles Narcotics Control Bureau
Department of Official Language	Central Translation Bureau Central Hindi Training Institute
Central Armed Police Forces	Border Security Force Indo-Tibetan Border Police Sashastra Seema Bal Central Reserve Police Force Central Industrial Security Force National Security Guards Special Frontier Force Assam Rifles Defence Security Corps
Bureaus	Bureau of Immigration (India) Narcotics Control Bureau National Crime Records Bureau Central Bureau of Investigation National Crime Investigation Bureau
Other Departments	Department of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs Department of Home Department of States

Home Secretaries

• R. N. Banerjee
• H. V. R. Iyengar
• A. V. Pai
• B. N. Jha
• V. Vishwanathan
• L. P. Singh
• Govind Narain
• N. K. Mukherjee
• S. L. Khurana
• T. C. A. Srinivasavaradan
• S. M. H. Burney
• T. N. Chaturvedi
• M. M. K. Wali
• Prem Kumar
• R. D. Pradhan
• C. G. Somiah
• J. A. Kalyankrishnan
• Shiromani Sharma
• Naresh Chandra
• R. K. Bhargava
• Madhav Godbole
• N. N. Vohra
• K. Padmanabhaiah
• Balmiki Prasad Singh
• Kamal Pande
• N. Gopalaswami
• Anil Baijal
• Dhirendra Singh
• Vinod Kumar Duggal
• Gopal Krishna Pillai
• R. K. Singh
• Anil Goswami
• L. C. Goyal
• Rajiv Mehrishi
• Rajiv Gauba
• Ajay Kumar Bhalla (incumbent)

Home Ministers

• Vallabhbhai Patel
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• C. Rajagopalachari
• Kailash Nath Katju
• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Gulzari Lal Nanda
• Indira Gandhi
• Yashwantrao Chavan
• Uma Shankar Dikshit
• Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
• Charan Singh
• Morarji Desai
• Hirubhai M. Patel
• Zail Singh
• R. Venkataraman
• Prakash Chandra Sethi
• P. V. Narasimha Rao
• Shankarrao Chavan
• Buta Singh
• Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
• Chandra Shekhar
• Murli Manohar Joshi
• H. D. Deve Gowda
• Indrajit Gupta
• L. K. Advani
• Shivraj Patil
• P. Chidambaram
• Sushilkumar Shinde
• Rajnath Singh
• Amit Shah (incumbent)

Ministers of State
for Home Affairs

• Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
• Kiren Rijiju
• G. Kishan Reddy (incumbent)