WHEREAS, the Internet is increasingly used to market a multitude of different products for sale, including drug use paraphernalia, and chemicals used to manufacture illegal drugs; and

WHEREAS, the Internet Service Providers manage the Internet that provides marketing services; and

WHEREAS, Title 21 Section 863 (a) of the United States Criminal Code prohibits the sale of drug paraphernalia; and

WHEREAS, the sale and/or distribution of drug paraphernalia over the Internet is becoming an increasing problem and contributing significantly to the distribution of illegal controlled substances throughout the United States; and

WHEREAS, substances such as mannitol, quinine, inosital, and lactose are sold over the Internet and used by drug trafficking organizations to dilute controlled substances such as cocaine and heroin; and

WHEREAS, federal, state and local law enforcement should work together to target companies involved in the distribution of drug paraphernalia; and WHEREAS, current advances in telecommunication technology have affected law enforcement capabilities to detect critical information detailing criminal activities; and

WHEREAS, the lawful intercepting of Internet communications is one of the most valuable investigative tools available to law enforcement in identifying and crippling illegal drug activities and drug trafficking organizations; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the IACP strongly urges cooperation from Internet Service Providers to assist law enforcement in executing internet surveillance by designing or modifying their systems to ensure that lawfully-authorized Internet surveillance can be performed to ensure that illegal narcotics, the chemicals to manufacture illegal narcotics, and the paraphernalia necessary to use illegal narcotics, not be marketed on the Internet.