Over 200 aircraft per year enter the DR loaded with drugs en route to the United States according to intelligence reports that base their calculations on the number of shipments detected in 2004. According to military sources consulted by Listin Diario, the critical illegal use of Dominican air space is the responsibility of the US surveillance organizations, which are not informing the Dominican Armed Forces about the detection of aircraft that use the DR as a bridge or transit to carry their shipments to US territory. Armed Forces Minister Sigfrido Pared Perez has said that there was an urgent and irreversible need to have our own methods of aircraft and boat detection.