KUALA LUMPUR: Syabu is getting cheaper and would be flooding the market if it weren’t for our men and women in blue. In the last three years, Bukit Aman’s Narcotic Crime Investigation Department (NCID) has seized 10.9 tonnes of syabu worth more than RM436mil. Its director Comm Datuk Mohd Khalil Kader Mohd (pic) revealed that a whopping RM2.7bil worth of drugs were seized last year, and syabu led the synthetic drugs seizures with 5.05 tonnes seized worth RM20.23mil. He added that police opened 17,135 drug trafficking cases last year with 26,803 arrests, compared with 16,716 cases and 25,522 arrests in 2018. “Meanwhile, on possession charges, we opened 48,075 cases with 66,378 arrests last year compared with 45,893 cases in 2018 with 62,542 arrests, ” he said.

Source: The Star February 06, 2020 22:52 UTC