MOSCOW, Russia -- The following information was released by the Ministry of Interior of the Russian Federation:
"Interaction and prevention" -- these were the main principles of combating illegal drug trafficking determined for themselves by the Heads of the two agencies: the Regional Main Internal Affairs Directorate and the Directorate of the Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS).
These issues were discussed at the joint collegial meeting where the law enforcement agencies not only summed up the results of their joint work, but also agreed upon new forms of cooperation.
Since the beginning of the year, law enforcement agencies of the Region have registered 2208 drug crimes, including 1460 grave and 491 especially grave crimes. Over half a ton of drugs has been withdrawn from illegal trafficking: 503.6 kg, including 13 kg of heroin, 264 kg of hashish, and 215 kg of marihuana.
Colonel of Militia Evgeny Bylitsky, Head of the Criminal Investigation Directorate of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate for the Kemerovo Region, noted that, along with heroin addiction, the so-called "medicinal-pharmaceutical drug addiction" is gaining momentum in Kuzbass; its most dangerous manifestation is the consumption of the highly toxic medicine desomorphine.
So far, desomorphine has been produced and consumed in Kuzbass locally, Bylitsky emphasized; however, the consequences of this drug consumption are much more awful: in most cases, the consumption of desomorphine ends in death from an overdose. Kuzbass law enforcement officers do their best to terminate pharmaceutical drug addiction at an early stage.
Not long ago, officers of the Center for Combating Crimes in the Consumer Market terminated the sale of potent drugs without prescription in one of Kemerovo pharmacies.
According to Major General Sergey Bezryadin, Head of the Drug Control Directorate, the growing number of suspects convicted of drug crimes evidences not only the trouble situation in Kuzbass, but also the effectiveness of performance of police officers. From the beginning of the year, law enforcement agencies of the Region have sent 1101 criminal cases to court.
Mr. Bezryadin also noted that thanks to the fact that internal affairs agencies focus on the so-called "street" drug-related crimes, officers of the Drug Control Service manage to concentrate their efforts on detecting and terminating organized drug-related crimes, liquidation of drug laboratories, cutting of international and interregional channels of delivery of large quantities of drugs to the territory of the Kemerovo Region.
In January 2011, officers of the FDSC Directorate cut an international channel of hashish delivery to Russia from Iran. The drug had been transported by sea to Astrakhan, wherefrom it arrived to Novokuznetsk by train, where it was seized by drug police officers. 246 packages with the drug were placed in niches of boxes with glass plates. Each package had a foreign seal. As a result of the examination, the weight of the seized drugs was identified --263 kg; the seals were of 14 various kinds. The investigation established that one the organizers of the delivery was a citizen of two countries: Turkey and Azerbaijan.
The participants of the meeting noted that as the technological progress is accelerating, the principles of work of drug criminals change as well: they are starting to use actively advanced communication technologies, such as mobile Internet and banking payment systems to make settlements for acquired lots of drugs. They even can purchase drugs through the Internet, as it was done a month ago by a dealer of smoking mixture "chocolate" detained in Mezhdurechensk by operational officers of the Criminal Department. The suspect admitted having ordered on one of the Internet sites one thousand packages of the drug "chocolate", which he was going to disseminate in the South of Kuzbass; however, he was promptly seized with the goods by law enforcement agencies.
The attendees also came to a conclusion that cocaine is becoming increasingly widespread in Kuzbass, being regularly seized. On 30 April, a drug dealer was detained in Novokuznetsk, who was transporting the largest lot of cocaine in the history of the Kemerovo Region -- about 100 grams of the substance.
Taking into account all of the above-mentioned, the Heads of the agencies came to a conclusion that their work should be mainly focused not only on operational work, but also on prevention of drug abuse, especially among the youth.
Press Service of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate for the Kemerovo Region
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