Mid-Iowa Narcotics Enforcement

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The Mid-Iowa Narcotics Enforcement (MINE) Task Force is a federally funded [1] undercover drug enforcement task force, [2] coordinated among several jurisdictions of Iowa law enforcement. MINE is part of the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement and is charged with aggressively combating street level drug dealers, disrupting mid-level to upper-level drug trafficking and manufacturing organizations and dismantling the organizations. [3]

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