The IDS is a data collection mandated by the drug conventions and it gathers data on individual drug seizure cases taking place within the national territory of Member States. It is reported to UNODC throughout the year, preferably quarterly. For this questionnaire, an Individual Drug Seizure is defined as a singular interception or apprehension of drugs and/or New Psychoactive Substances, by a Law Enforcement Agency, taking into account the specific place and point in time of the event. An individual drug seizure case can cover one or more drugs seized at one specific place and point in time.
IDS data submitted by Member States form a critical component for producing drug seizure statistics used for informing the global community on the drug trafficking problem through the global annual publication-the World Drug Report.
IDS data collection templates and guidance notes
The templates and guidance notes for the IDS mandated data collection are accessible to Permanent Missions and Focal Points at our web-based data collection instrument, the Data eXchange Platform (DXP): https://dxp.unodc.org.
For any related queries, please contact the IDS team at unodc-ids@un.org.
IDS Focal Points
For any queries related to this data collection please contact our team by email at unodc-ids@un.org or by telephone at +43 (0)1 26060-83241.
