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Assessed global interception rates for heroin and cocaine in 1998, based on reported seizures as against estimated potential levels of availability, were 17% and 46% respectively, representing substantial increases upon the respective average figures of 10% and 33% observed over a number of years. The higher success rate in respect of cocaine may stem from the greater geographic concentration of illicit coca bush cultivation and coca production, which are effectively limited to Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. They may also be attributable to the fact that most cocaine supply is directed towards just two regions - North America and Western Europe, though Brazil and South Africa are emerging as significant sites of consumption. Cocaine is more often transported by sea or air than by land transport, which enables more focussed enforcement strategies and countermeasures to be directed against it. Consignments of opiates, by contrast, pass predominantly across land frontier crossings, where enforcement bodies’ efforts are usually less focussed.

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