Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Drugs and International Crime Department: Registered files (DD prefix)

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Details of FCO 198
Reference: FCO 198
Title: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Drugs and International Crime Department: Registered files (DD prefix)
Description:

This series contains records regarding the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)'s policy on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), international drugs and international crime.

Date: 1994-2009
Arrangement:

The records are arranged by prefix, all are prefixed DD, then the third letter of the prefix indicates the subject matter of the file: DDA = AIDS, DDD = Drugs, DDE = Crime, DDM = Management.

Related material:

For FCO's policy on international crime between 1984-1993 and 1995 see FCO 178

For FCO's policy on drugs and AIDS between 1987-1993 see FCO 183
Former reference in its original department: DD
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Drugs and International Crime Department, 1994-2010
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Administrative / biographical background:

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Drugs and International Crime Department was established in 1994, following the closure of the Narcotics Control and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Department. The Narcotics Control and AIDS Unit was established in 1987 in response to the global AIDS crisis. The Unit changed its name in 1988 to the Narcotics Control and Acquired Immune Deficiency (AIDS) Department. Prior to the establishment of the Drugs and International Crime Department, FCO policy on international crime had been the responsibility of the Security Co-ordination Department.

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