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Superintendent of Police G.K. Mithun Kumar has said the territory constabulary has zero tolerance for cause trafficking and depletion of drugs successful Shivamogga district.
Addressing a property league present connected Monday, Mr. Kumar said the proactive measures taken by the constabulary resulted successful the summation successful cases related to cause peddling and consumption.
Recently, the contented of cause trafficking and ganja depletion was discussed successful a gathering chaired by Minister for School Education Madhu Bangarappa, who is besides Minister successful complaint of Shivamogga.
Besides, the Karnataka State Women's Commission Chairperson Nagalakshmi Choudhary besides expressed superior interest connected the contented during her sojourn to the district.
Sharing details of the cases registered successful the district, Mr. Kumar said that the constabulary person booked 420 cases for ganja depletion successful 2025. Of them, 289 were successful Shivamogga metropolis alone.
“The cases registered this twelvemonth are the highest compared to the past 2 years. Going by the statistics, determination are chances to infer that ganja depletion has increased. But the cases accrued due to the fact that of the proactive steps of the police. We person accrued the fig of tests. Whenever we find radical violating postulation rules, engaging successful insignificant clashes, oregon exhibiting suspicious behaviour, we taxable specified radical to depletion tests. This twelvemonth alone, we person conducted 4,209 tests, and of them, 420 radical tested positive. Among them, 289 were reported successful Shivamogga city,” Mr. Kumar said.
The Superintendent of Police said that his unit had been conducting exercises successful respective constabulary presumption limits, including ft patrolling and questioning radical who stitchery successful nationalist places. “If we find anybody’s behaviour suspicious, specified radical are taken into our custody for further examination,” helium said.
Drones
Mr. Kumar stated that drone cameras were being utilized to support an oculus connected amerciable activities connected the metropolis outskirts. The cameras would assistance seizure images of the accused. “Later, we them prime up for interrogation. If they were recovered to beryllium consuming ganja, we would initiate further probe,” the serviceman said.
The constabulary booked 35 cases against 80 peddlers this year. “We person sent our teams to Bengaluru, Andhra Pradesh and different places, from wherever the accused allegedly brought ganja and different drugs,” helium said.
The authorities had formed task forces astatine each stations to curb cause trafficking. The further Superintendent of Police, S. Ramesh Kumar, would beryllium the territory nodal serviceman for cases related to drugs. He would beryllium monitoring the cases and pursuing up connected the probe connected a regular basis. The officials would besides coordinate with officers of different departments for associated enactment against cause maltreatment and ganja consumption.
Mr. Kumar said that the authorities had launched Sanmithra. Under this programme, each cause user and peddler would beryllium attached with a constabulary unit member. The unit would support a tab connected the movements of the peddler oregon user to cheque if specified idiosyncratic was encouraging others to prime up the wont oregon supplying drugs to others.
“Through this exercise, we are hopeful of preventing the cause trafficking and consumption. The unit subordinate volition beryllium successful interaction with the idiosyncratic until helium oregon she was escaped from addiction,” helium added.
