The West Texas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) was established in 1990 as part of the Southwest Border HIDTA which stretches the U.S. Border with Mexico from Southern California, through Arizona and New Mexico, to the southern tip of Texas.  The West Texas HIDTA region encompasses twelve west Texas counties that adjoin 490 miles of international border with Mexico.

The mission of the West Texas HIDTA is to dismantle the drug trafficking organizations (DTO) in our region and to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. We will make our area unattractive to the DTO’s via cooperative efforts in intelligence, investigation, interdiction, forfeiture, and prosecution initiatives.

Together, we will “target harden” our area via development and coordination of multi-agency initiatives.