The North Central High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) is a federal program designed to encourage and support federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to work together in multi-agency task forces in order to reduce specific drug threats in the HIDTA-designated region. North Central HIDTA is a national standard for collectively sharing information and partnering, which targets and dismantles the most significant Drug Trafficking Organizations and Money Laundering organizations posing the greatest threat to the community.

Vision:

Create drug free communities through proactive law enforcement, aggressive prosecution and effective demand reduction in the HIDTA region.

Mission:

Substantially reduce drug trafficking activity and related violence through enhanced intelligence processes and coordinated law enforcement, prosecutions, and demand reduction efforts.

North Central HIDTA is federally funded and locally administered, supporting 141 agencies, and 5.71 million people throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin communities.