# Gulf Coast HIDTA — Home page (mission, vision, locations) > *Gulf Coast HIDTA's own public mission statement, six-state vision area declaration, and three-location operational footprint (HQ + Investigative Support Center + Blue Lightning Operations Center). Primary record for: the Gulf Coast HIDTA's mission statement; its self-declared "six-state area"; and its physical-location footprint with two Metairie, LA addresses + a Gulfport, MS BLOC.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Gulf Coast HIDTA (gchidta.org) - **URL:** https://www.gchidta.org/ - **Archived:** 2026-06-05 via firecrawl basic-proxy markdown conversion - **Wayback snapshot:** save pending; retry queued ## Extract — verbatim (lightly cleaned for readability) ### Our Mission > *"The mission of the Gulf Coast HIDTA is to reduce illicit drug availability and its harmful consequences within its designated areas by supporting intelligence-driven task forces and supporting infrastructure designed to target, disrupt and eliminate drug trafficking organizations impacting our region and beyond."* ### Our Vision > *"The vision of the Gulf Coast HIDTA is to significantly reduce drug availability in its six-state area by maximizing the collaborative and cooperative efforts of its participating law enforcement agencies."* ### Locations **Gulf Coast HIDTA (HQ)** — Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM - 3748 N Causeway Blvd Ste 200 - Metairie, LA 70002 USA - (504)962-6990 / (504)962-6948 **Investigative Support Center (ISC)** — Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM - 3838 N Causeway Blvd Ste 1900 - Metairie, LA 70002 USA - (571)362-4824 **Blue Lightning Operations Center (BLOC)** — 24 Hours - Gulfport, MS USA - (800)USA-BLOC ## Notes - **Tier: 2** — official Gulf Coast HIDTA publication on its own program domain. - **The HQ location is Metairie, LA.** The 2026-06-05 ASP-batch-1 ingest's HIDTA LPR Network page had hypothesized Gulf Coast HIDTA was "based in Houston TX" — this is incorrect; the actual HQ is in Metairie, Louisiana. - **The "Investigative Support Center"** is a structurally important operational unit — HIDTA's regional intelligence-fusion arm. Plate-data-sharing infrastructure under the HIDTA LPR Network would plausibly route through ISC-class fusion centers; this is an architectural inference, not documented on this page. - **The Blue Lightning Operations Center (BLOC) at Gulfport MS** runs 24-hour operations — a separate maritime-and-coastal-focused operations element distinct from the ICP-style interstate-highway-focused operations the ASP ICP team runs. - **No LPR-specific architecture appears on the home page.** Detailed program-and-initiative descriptions are accessed through subpages (the "More About Us" link was 404 on the `/about` path tested 2026-06-05; the actual subpage structure may differ).