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Mangaluru City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy connected Tuesday said the cognition against peddlers of synthetic drugs, cannabis, and different substances volition beryllium intensified and continued until the past peddler is arrested.
He was speaking astatine a gathering of representatives from acquisition institutions connected creating consciousness astir substance maltreatment astatine the Town Hall here. Mr. Reddy said the section is continuously conducting operations to curtail the cause organisation network. No cause positives were recovered successful the caller screening of students, helium said, adding the drug-free Mangaluru run would beryllium a implicit success.
Urging institutions to activate anti-drug committees compulsorily, Mr. Reddy said students suspected to beryllium nether the power of drugs should beryllium identified and brought retired done counselling. The constabulary section volition supply indispensable assistance, helium said. Police would regularly sojourn campuses to assistance institutions bring students retired of substance abuse. While the constabulary would dainty students utilizing drugs arsenic victims, peddlers would beryllium dealt with severely.
Though substance maltreatment was said to beryllium rampant successful Mangaluru, lone 14 cases of maltreatment were recovered during 5,356 tests conducted betwixt June 2025 and January 17, 2026, the Commissioner said.
NOC for PGs
Responding to an assemblage ailment that rules were not followed successful mushrooming paying impermanent (PG) accommodations successful the city, Mr. Reddy said the City Corporation should importune connected a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Police Department earlier issuing licence to the PG operators.
Continuous checking
Chairing the district-level Narco Coordination Committee gathering present connected Tuesday, Deputy Commissioner H.V. Darshan told officials acrophobic to behaviour regular checks to forestall the merchantability of narcotics and smoking successful shops operating adjacent acquisition institutions.
Every acquisition instauration should periodically behaviour substance maltreatment consciousness programmes, the DC said, expressing displeasure with the Deputy Director of Pre-University Education for neglecting to behaviour cause maltreatment consciousness programmes successful pre-university colleges.
He instructed officials acrophobic to behaviour regular inspections of homestays and lodges. The Coast Guard should behaviour astonishment inspections of boats.
Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police K. Arun, Deputy Commissioner of Police Commissioner H.N. Mithun, and others were present.
