They reveal to Osborne that Section 8 is actually a black-ops anti-drug unit led by Tom Hardy (who is addressed as "Colonel").
Of the 80,000 members of the police in Colombia, for example, only about 3,500 are assigned to anti-drug units.
Embarrassed and exasperated, city officials are sending new anti-drug units onto the streets.
Even as Chief Thomas sent the new anti-drug units onto the street, he sought to lower expectations.
Ernest Sayon died in the custody of a special anti-drug unit that had been in existence only three weeks, police officials said yesterday.
Ernest Sayon died in the custody of a special anti-drug unit, in existence only three weeks.
A bodyguard for Cuauhtemoc Herrera Suastegui, former investigations director of one of Mexico's most elite anti-drug units, was killed.
Some Colombian law enforcement officials want an increase in pay for the security forces and the creation of an anti-drug unit with members of the army and the police.
Two police investigators assigned to one of the recently-organized specialized anti-drug units were kidnapped earlier this month and found dead on Friday in the trunk of a car here.
The United States wants the Bolivian anti-drug units to spend more time going after drug manufacturing sites.