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Malaysian police chief says tough to combat drugs with addicts on force

Published 07/29/2019, 06:07 PM
Updated 07/29/2019, 06:10 PM
Malaysian police chief says tough to combat drugs with addicts on force

KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Reuters) - Malaysia's police are
struggling to rein in drug abuse because there are many addicts
on the force, the southeast Asian nation's police chief said on
Monday, with methamphetamine emerging as the main culprit.
Malaysia is a key transit point for the drug, authorities
say, with police in the past year seizing record amounts of
crystal meth, or shabu as it is known domestically, with much of
it coming from neighbouring Myanmar. "We can see the number of addicts doubling,"
Inspector-General Abdul Hamid Bador told reporters.
"Not only among ordinary people, but among my own men. Every
week we have surfaced, arrested our own men high on meth, shabu,
and all this."
Police were taking action against the addicts on the force,
but the problem was huge, he said, without elaborating.
"I do not see how we can effectively ensure that the drug
threat in this country is under control," he added.
Malaysia's anti-drug agency estimated the number of drug
addicts at 25,267 last year, only a slight dip from 2017, but
lower than the 2016 figure of nearly 31,000.
Nevertheless, Malaysia is considering dropping criminal
penalties over small quantities of drugs intended for personal
use. Fines and jail time currently await anyone found using
drugs.

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