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Guwahati, Dec 10 (PTI) Assam Police is working on a strategy to reduce the supply and demand of drugs as its trafficking from Myanmar and the Golden Triangle through the corridor of Northeast India is still a potential threat, Director General of Police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Inaugurating a two-day workshop-cum-training for drug law enforcement agencies of the north-eastern region, Mahanta said NE states served as a transit corridor for the trafficking of drugs through which it reached the rest of the country.<\/p>\n
The DGP also launched an app, developed by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre (NIC).<\/p>\n
”The App will help people to inform Assam Police about the selling, storage, shipment, usage of psychotropic substances instantly on a real-time basis. Police can then act on such information immediately without any loss of time”, an Assam Police release quoting Mahanta said.<\/p>\n
The Assam Police have registered 1,700 cases under The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act after the BJP-led government under Himanta Biswa Sarma assumed office in May this year.<\/p>\n
As many as 2,900 accused have been arrested while psychotropic substances worth Rs 325 crore in the international market have been seized.<\/p>\n
The Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) S N Pradhan in his address thanked the Assam Police for organising the training programme and said that the NCB Regional office will work closely with the North-eastern States and Central para-military forces to curb the menace of drug trade and trafficking in the region.<\/p>\n
The workshop has been organised by the state CID in collaboration with NCB, New Delhi for drug law enforcement agencies of North-eastern states, Central para-military forces posted in North-east and central agencies like Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Customs.<\/p>\n
Additional. DGP (CID) A Y V Krishna said with the advent of the darknet and use of cryptocurrencies there is an emerging threat of online drug trade which is posing a challenge to the drug law enforcement agencies as the proceeds of the drug trade are being laundered in the form of cryptocurrencies. PTI<\/p>\n
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