Thiruvananthapuram: As the yr involves a detailed, statistics to be had with the police display a grim image relating to achieve of drug mafia a few of the youths within the city. In 2018, the town shadow police members controlled to avoid wasting as many as 68 youths addicted to medication and ganja via making them go through rehabilitation procedure. Out of them as many as 30 have been below the age of 18.
“While lots of them have been learning in schools, there have been many, who dropped out of colleges owing to their addiction,” said Athul, a member of the narcotic wing of the town shadow police officers, who focuses on number of intelligence on drug mafia as well as rehabilitate the addicts below the ‘Aspiration’ programme of the state police.
According to some other shadow cop, Renjith, the figures this yr, when in comparison to that of past yr, might appear much less. In 2017, the shadow police officers had rehabilitated as many as 104 youths out of which over 50 where below the age of 18.
“But, the drop in numbers is since the substance abusers have become extra cautious concerning the persistent anti-drug actions of the police and they have came upon ways to be away from the radar of the police,” the officer said. All the 30 under-age teens sent to de-addiction centres this yr have been boys. However, there have been 12 young ladies a few of the 38 adults, who had to go through rehabilitation procedure this yr, he added.
City police commissioner P Prakash said that the shadow police squad were acting enormously when it came to nabbing members of drug mafia and solving different main crimes. They continued to bust main gangs because they always stayed alert and not let their guard down, the commissioner said.
“2018 was once a yr through which the police seized most quantity of narcotic elements within the fresh years. The general amount comes close to 250 kilograms,’’ Prakash said. Of this, 237 kilograms is ganja and the remainder is synthetic medication. This was once made possible best due to the relentless efforts of the members of the squad. And, their arduous work paid off as most members of the squad have been bestowed with Badge of Honour for Detective Excellence.
“In reality, the town shadow squad had extra choice of officers winning the Badge of Honour than another wing below the town police,” the commissioner said.
Speaking about rehabilitating scholars trapped via narcotic drug mafia, Prakash said that the police had also took projects to send as many as 12 scholars back to schools after they dropped out owing to their addiction. While some schools have been ready to take back the students, the others have been enrolled to leading parallel colleges within the city.
The commissioner added that they are going to be continuing the vigil within the next yr too.
“The best criticism we've is that those shadow police officers are always busy with their work that providing them any roughly training to improve their abilities has remained an unimaginable job till now,” Prakash said including that he can be looking into the probabilities of organizing talent building training classes for them within the coming yr.
“While lots of them have been learning in schools, there have been many, who dropped out of colleges owing to their addiction,” said Athul, a member of the narcotic wing of the town shadow police officers, who focuses on number of intelligence on drug mafia as well as rehabilitate the addicts below the ‘Aspiration’ programme of the state police.
According to some other shadow cop, Renjith, the figures this yr, when in comparison to that of past yr, might appear much less. In 2017, the shadow police officers had rehabilitated as many as 104 youths out of which over 50 where below the age of 18.
“But, the drop in numbers is since the substance abusers have become extra cautious concerning the persistent anti-drug actions of the police and they have came upon ways to be away from the radar of the police,” the officer said. All the 30 under-age teens sent to de-addiction centres this yr have been boys. However, there have been 12 young ladies a few of the 38 adults, who had to go through rehabilitation procedure this yr, he added.
City police commissioner P Prakash said that the shadow police squad were acting enormously when it came to nabbing members of drug mafia and solving different main crimes. They continued to bust main gangs because they always stayed alert and not let their guard down, the commissioner said.
“2018 was once a yr through which the police seized most quantity of narcotic elements within the fresh years. The general amount comes close to 250 kilograms,’’ Prakash said. Of this, 237 kilograms is ganja and the remainder is synthetic medication. This was once made possible best due to the relentless efforts of the members of the squad. And, their arduous work paid off as most members of the squad have been bestowed with Badge of Honour for Detective Excellence.
“In reality, the town shadow squad had extra choice of officers winning the Badge of Honour than another wing below the town police,” the commissioner said.
Speaking about rehabilitating scholars trapped via narcotic drug mafia, Prakash said that the police had also took projects to send as many as 12 scholars back to schools after they dropped out owing to their addiction. While some schools have been ready to take back the students, the others have been enrolled to leading parallel colleges within the city.
The commissioner added that they are going to be continuing the vigil within the next yr too.
“The best criticism we've is that those shadow police officers are always busy with their work that providing them any roughly training to improve their abilities has remained an unimaginable job till now,” Prakash said including that he can be looking into the probabilities of organizing talent building training classes for them within the coming yr.
A busy year for shadow cops as drug mafia tightens its grip
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