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Good afternoon, everyone!

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My name is Caitlin, and I am an
international relations senior.

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I have a focus in
national security,

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leading me to my interest
in law enforcement.

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So what is the DEA?

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I particularly interned at the
DEA, also known as the Drug

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Enforcement Administration.

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Now what does the Drug
Enforcement Administration do?

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We do a variety of
things reinforced

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by this different bodies,
different sectors that we have,

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such as Divergence,
Task Force Group

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1 and 2, Asset Forfeiture,
and the financial department.

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We have 224 domestic offices
with 21 different types

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of divisions that we have.

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And we have 90 foreign offices
in 69 different countries.

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I worked in the New
England District.

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I worked with the
New England Division,

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which covers Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont,

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Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, and Connecticut.

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Because the task force
officers are only

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part-time officers
that work in the DEA,

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I was able to go
through different types

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of other sectors within the DEA.

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Now why, may you ask, does the
DEA have only part-time task

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force officers?

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Because they work full-time
within their districts.

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I worked in Task Force 2, which
has all the different districts

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surrounding Boston.

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So I had Boston
police officers, I

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had Cambridge police officers.

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I worked with Everett,
Maldin, different types

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of officers that worked around.

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So that's why they
were part-time there.

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In Divergence, I worked
with looking at high collar

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white crimes, such as going
in through pharmaceuticals.

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I went to look at
psychiatrists and made

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sure that they were prescribing
medication correctly.

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I looked and made
sure that pharmacies

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weren't selling drugs out the
back door in places like CVS.

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And Groups 1 and
2, I worked kind

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of as a nexus between
Task Force and Divergence.

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So I was able to look at the
different types of things

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that they were doing.

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I did background checks on
different types of hospitals.

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I made sure that they were
doing everything that they

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were supposed to be doing.

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And if not, I went to
different departments

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within the State Department
to give it to someone else.

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Asset Forfeiture, I don't
know if a lot of people

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know what this is.

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But I worked to make sure that,
OK, so we have a drug dealer,

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we convicted him, now what do
we do with all of his property?

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If he has four or five
different houses that he could

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use as a stash house, he
could use as a regular cover,

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I made sure that we did-- all
these lawyers saying, excuse

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me, person A, we have taken x,
y, and z of all of your stuff.

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We're going to make sure
that you are notified

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that we are taking your stuff.

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And so you can't go
in court and say,

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you didn't notify that you
were taking away my car.

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And finally, I
worked in Task Force

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2, which was my primary sector.

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In Task Force 2, I did
background checks on suspects.

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I tracked their cars.

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So for example, we would
have Task Force agents that

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would, at, like, 2:00 in
the morning, go to their car

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and put a GPS
system on their car,

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usually underneath their
car to make sure, OK,

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where can we track this person?

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I was able to track
different people,

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and I was able to identify if
they were a financial carrier.

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I was able to figure out
where they were going,

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where could their
stash most likely be,

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who were their frequent clients.

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And I was able to
use as evidence

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to give the information
to the police officers.

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So they would ask, all right,
where is person A going today?

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And I would say they're
likely going to this area,

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based on their past history.

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I have translated documents.

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I was one of the only
people in the office that

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was able to speak Spanish.

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And out of Boston, in
particular, Spanish speaking

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people, the amount of
people was very high,

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particularly in the
drug department.

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So I was able to
translate the documents.

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I was able to look at all
their tax, particularly

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within their evidence, and I was
able to notify them, tell them

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what was going on.

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For example, who
was doing what, who

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was the main boss, what
were they saying, what else

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is possibly going to happen.

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This is another example of one
of my big projects that I did.

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As you can see right here,
these are little baggies

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of cocaine and heroin, and
these are the little background

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pieces of paper that
you had to fill out.

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I blew it up a
little bit, so this

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is one paper that the task force
officer would have to fill out.

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You would have to do the name,
the case number, description.

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Here's a big blowup view of
the different types of cocaine

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that we did.

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This is a really big drug bust
that happened this past summer.

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And this is one way of carrying
all the different types

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of drugs into the office.

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Another way-- because this was
during the day-- another way

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if, for example, a police
officer had a raid at night,

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he would have to turn in all the
drug evidence in these baggies

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and put them in the
evidence locker.

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And they would end
up either being

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like this, very nice,
fancy, small thumbnail size,

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or they would be a little
bit more crude in this sense.

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So they would be stashed.

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This is most likely
from a drug dealer

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that was trying to bring it
from one way or to another.

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I'm trying not to make
it very noticeable.

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To be an uncommon woman within
the federal law enforcement.

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Now as a person who is five
foot two, very, very small,

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I always thought that
it wasn't possible

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for me to become
in law enforcement,

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particularly within the
FBI, which is my main goal.

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I want to be a Special Agent.

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But fortunately, the FBI
and the CIA, in particular,

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are doing a lot better
job of recruiting

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female federal officers.

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Because they're starting to
realize that you don't need

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to be physically strong.

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You don't need to
be very big in bulk

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in the stereotypical
persona of a Special Agent.

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You can use a lot
of different skills

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that females, in particular,
are very, very well attuned to.

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For example we're very good
at de-escalating very high,

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strenuous, and
intense situations.

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We're able to communicate.

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We're able to talk.

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And that's one of the big skills
that women are particularly

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well known for, and the
thing that the police

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officers and the federal
officers want to pursue.

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So therefore there's
a high demand

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for women, especially
young women that

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don't look the part, to
go into law enforcement.

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Unfortunately, within
the DEA, I was only

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able to find one other woman
that was a Special Agent.

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But that's because the DEA
is still very much physically

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demanding.

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However, if you are
able to become a woman

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officer within the
DEA, that's great,

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because you're able to go on
different undercover things.

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I had a lot of takeaways
from the Special Agent

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that I asked questions with.

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And I was very, very fortunate
to have this experience.

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And before I end
my presentation,

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I would like to thank
UAF for providing me

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with the financial means
for this internship.

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I would like to thank my
parents for providing me

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the moral support
and emotional support

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that I needed throughout
this internship.

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And I would very much like to
thank our moderator, Professor

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Andy Barger, and all of you
for coming and listening

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to my presentation today.

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Thank you very much.