Capital Police need to be congratulated for nabbing the gang of drug peddlers and it’s not the biggest seizure of contraband in the ICR so far this year that matters here. It’s the message that goes out to the evil cartels that police hasn’t lost its focus due to the pandemic and its radar on the illegal transactions of drug is ever active that is important. Surreptitious activities of this kind i.e. supply of contraband items by whatever names known to prospective buyers have been going on throughout Arunachal Pradesh and that’s a major reason for the menace’s upward graph. That the operation has been successful is evident from the fact that the intelligence gathering mechanism has been carefully nurtured and the resultant tip-off led to arrests. This always remains a vital aspect of any anti-drug operation and more the ‘high quality’ it is the more is the success rate. The roots, as it’s always are far-stretched and efficacies of counter-measures undoubtedly depend on the ‘roving eyes’. Capital police’s success can be replicated across the state if the peripheral vision of these roving eyes is optimised.

It’s a matter of sustained concern that young Arunachal has fallen prey to the menace and this is despite all efforts on part of administration and social organisations. Any major haul or prized catch in a particular district or region in the state gives rise to the expectation that the supply line there has been effectively snapped. However, the racketeers have proved smarter and with newer methods they continue to hoodwink the police and reach out to youths. It can be recalled that at the Annual Conference of SPs and Commandants last month, it was the rising menace of drug addiction among the state’s youths which turned out to be the chief topic of discussion. Home Minister Bamang Felix while acknowledging the issue termed it as one of the key challenges in front of the state Home department and called for concerted efforts involving all departments for throwing up a decisive fight. If all the anti-drug successes achieved in the last two months across various districts are analyzed, evidently, intelligence inputs have been the telling contributors. However, as part of dual strategy, ongoing destruction drives of psychoactive plants must not lose momentum along with the efforts of encouraging the growers of these illegal plantations to relinquish the practice. Here, when it is clear that economic compulsion is the primary cause that drives these people into illegalities, substitute measures must be reinforced.

In other words, only multi-pronged strategies with their periodic reviews can only be an answer to drugs.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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