ABILENE, Texas -- Only 3% of drugs are seized every year, that means 97% moves freely on our nations roads and highways.

I-20 is a huge artery that runs right through Texas and gives traffickers access to transfer narcotics coast to coast.

That's why for the next three days local, state and federal officers are under going a drug trafficking program at the Civic Center.

Joshua Michel, Mid-west Counter Drug Training Center, told KTXS this type of training is crucial.

Michel said,"It is extremely valuable, most officers don't get any training outside the academy and this is a way to continue their education."

Nate McVicker of Highway Interdiction Training told us, "We're training as many officers across country to try and get on up on these sophisticated drug trafficking organizations."

Officers spent the morning looking through every crevice, nook and cranny to find where narcotics could be hidden.

McVicker said, "You can see these drug trafficking organizations will try to get one up on us and load this battery with any kind of contraband, weapons, narcotics or currency. Anywhere in the country whether it's I-20, state roads or dirt roads; every road way has been traveled with illegal contraband at one time or another."

Since this program started in 2003 they have helped train 97,000 officers across the country to fight the war on drugs.