‘Other Third-Parties’

Abstract

The other third-parties examined in this chapter comprise federal, state and local government agencies (including law enforcement), policy and professional organisations, and industry. Some third-parties were identified as having a direct role in the policing of methamphetamine precursor diversion (primarily law enforcement bodies), while others such as policy and professional organisations, play an indirect role. Local government authorities were included in the study for the purposes of examining the types of roles that the third tier of government presently plays in the policing of this problem, in addition to the better understood role of the federal and state tiers.