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Deploying drones and a specially trained K9 squad, the Kozhikode City Police person intensified surveillance and enforcement measures against cause peddlers arsenic portion of ‘Operation Toofan’, an anti-narcotics drive.
On Wednesday (June 10, 2026), the squads, supported by astir 35 constabulary unit from assorted stations, conducted flash inspections astatine assorted autobus terminals and parking spots wrong the metropolis limits to place and detain suspects.
A specially trained sniffer dog, 296 Blacky, on with the constabulary drone surveillance portion and a 20-member onslaught squad led by District Police Chief (Kozhikode City) Merin Joseph, participated successful the operation. Sub-inspector Nimin K. Divakaran coordinated the team.
Police officers overseeing the district-level enactment said the frequence of field-level inspections would beryllium accrued successful the coming days based connected caller quality inputs. They besides said the upcoming hunt operations would chiefly absorption connected acquisition institutions, colleges, schools, and different specified important places.
