(a) The Attorney General shall cooperate with Virgin Islands, State, and Federal agencies concerning traffic in controlled substances and in suppressing the abuse of controlled substances. To this end, he is authorized to—
(1) arrange for the exchange of information between governmental officials concerning the use and abuse of controlled substances;
(2) cooperate in the institution and prosecution of cases in the courts of the Virgin Islands and before the licensing boards of the Virgin Islands;
(3) coordinate and cooperate in training programs on controlled substance law enforcement in the Virgin Islands;
(4) cooperate with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration by establishing a centralized unit which will accept, catalogue, file and collect statistics, including records of dangerous substance law offenders within the Virgin Islands, and make such information available for Federal and Virgin Islands law enforcement purposes;
(5) conduct programs of eradication aimed at destroying wild or illicit growth of plant species from which controlled substances may be extracted.
(b) When requested by the Commissioner, it shall be the duty of any agency or instrumentality of the Government of the Virgin Islands to furnish assistance, including technical advice, to him for carrying out his functions under this chapter; except that no such agency or instrumentality shall be required to furnish the name of, or other identifying information about, a patient or research subject whose identity it has undertaken to keep confidential.