Stressing the importance of uprooting the source of narcotics, Commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Iqbal Bahar on Saturday said that the narcotic drugs would not spread to ten thousand places across the country if the more or less ten entry points can be stopped.
The CMP boss made the comment at a time when the law enforcing agencies are conducting a countrywide drive against narcotics, killing more than hundred and detaining thousands.
“Barishal Colony (locally known as the den of drugs dealers) of Chattogram was an abscess to the city residents. There are more than one hundred drug dens all over the city like Barishal Colony and all of them will be destroyed in phases,” said the CMP Commissioner while speaking at a destruction programme of narcotics seized by the Detective Branch of the CMP.
The CMP Commissioner also warned that the police would keep a constant vigil so that nobody can abuse drugs or start drug dealing anew in the city.
“The police have destroyed around 145 drug dens in the port city. The police will go tough if anybody dares to set up drug dens again in the city,” warned Bahar.
The narcotic drugs that were destroyed on CMP headquarters premises include 15,38,500 pieces of yaba tablets and 9800 grams of cannabis.
The programme was attended by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Osman Gani, Metropolitan Magistrate Al Imran Khan, CMP’s additional commissioners Kusum Dewan and Amena Begum and other high officials of the CMP.