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Two Anti Narcotic Task Force (ANTF) teams person been constituted nether the Tiruchi City Police successful an effort to fortify enforcement against narcotic smuggling. The ANTFs were constituted a fewer days agone pursuing an announcement by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay and issuance of a Government Order and a circular from the bureau of the Director-General of Police for the enactment of specified teams successful each territory oregon Commissionerate.
Each of the recently formed anti-narcotic squad consists of six constabulary unit and has been entrusted with a acceptable of mandated tasks and responsibilities. The Tiruchi City Police is headed by the Commissioner of Police with Deputy Commissioner for North and South.
Police sources said 1 of the ANTF teams has been entrusted with the task of covering the areas falling nether northbound and different squad would screen areas nether south. Both teams volition relation nether the nonstop supervision of the Commissioner of Police.
Having been picked from the Tiruchi City Police strength, unit forming portion of the 2 teams person been spared of different duties to alteration them absorption connected the tasks specially assigned to them. The teams person commenced their task connected the tract since their enactment a fewer days ago, the sources said. At present, each ANTF squad is headed by a sub-inspector of police.
One of the major tasks entrusted with the teams is postulation of quality pertaining to question of narcotic substances and banned baccy products wrong Tiruchi City limits and the offenders progressive successful specified crimes. The Tiruchi City Police has nether its jurisdiction 14 constabulary stations.
The ANTF teams would transportation retired operations connected receipt of inputs regarding question of narcotics and different banned substances and initiate preventive action. As per the Government Order, the ANTFs person been empowered with prosecution powers and to regularly travel up connected cases to guarantee conviction. The sources said barring the serviceman heading the teams, the remaining unit would beryllium successful plainclothes. The ANTF teams would person to support coordination with different departments successful carrying retired consciousness drives.
The ANTFs would beryllium specialised teams solely concentrating connected anti-drug operations and for effectual enforcement of laws connected with them, said the sources. Movement of ganja and banned baccy substances person been reported successful Tiruchi City limits if the fig of seizures and the apprehension of accused made by the constabulary are immoderate indication.
The sources said astir 93 kg of ganja was seized wrong Tiruchi City limits betwixt January and December successful 2025 with the fig of NDPS Act cases booked being 188. Over 200 accused were arrested during this period. Similarly, the quantity of banned baccy substances seized wrong the metropolis limits successful 2025 was a small implicit 1,700 kg with the fig of cases registered nether The Cigarettes and different Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act being 422. The constabulary had arrested 436 accused past twelvemonth nether the COTPA Act. Cases of seizures of banned baccy substances person been reported elsewhere successful the territory nether the Tiruchi Rural Police limits.
The sources said production, movement, retention and merchantability of baccy products are banned successful Tamil Nadu. The smuggling of this contraband into Tamil Nadu is from Karnataka and different States, the sources said.
