MELAKA: The police have proposed to the Home Ministry to amend or enact a number of acts associated to penalties for drug-related offences in keeping with present traits for banned substances abuse within the nation.
Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department director Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay stated the kinds of medicine broadly utilized by addicts now are syabu and ecstasy drugs, which used to be heroin earlier than.
“Earlier, for heroin, 15g mandated a dangling sentence however for syabu and ecstasy drugs it was 50g… so we would like the load for syabu to be diminished to 15g.
“This proposal was introduced to the Home Ministry earlier than being submitted to the Attorney General’s Chambers for thorough scrutiny,” he instructed reporters after the closing ceremony of the seminar on Community Social Issues: Situation, Challenges and Prevention within the Present Era’ at Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka right here on Sunday (June 12).
He additionally stated other than that, police had been additionally itemizing banned chemical substances used to produce new kinds of medicine comparable to syabu, ketamine, yaba and kuda drugs.
So far in Malaysia, there are greater than 60 banned chemical substances listed used to produce new kinds of medicine, in contrast to over 900 chemical substances banned abroad.
In one other improvement, Ayob stated the police, in collaboration with different enforcement companies such because the Customs Department and the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, would proceed to beef up management on the nation’s borders to curb any improve in hashish smuggling from Thailand following their authorities’s choice to enable its residents to plant marijuana efficient June 9.
He stated Thailand’s choice was seen to have an effect on hashish smuggling into the nation as there have been no extra restrictions on the motion of the plant there, despite the fact that it was nonetheless banned in Malaysia.
“Indeed, the choice made by Thailand has induced a ‘frenzy’ on our half… possibly smugglers will be emboldened to transfer extra hashish into this nation.
“Now there is no such thing as a extra restrict to the motion of hashish into the nation… possibly everybody will wait on the border to sneak it into Malaysia and on Saturday alone, 860kg of hashish smuggled in from Thailand was confiscated,” he stated.
Commenting on the abolition of the obligatory loss of life penalty within the nation with an alternate sentence topic to the court docket’s discretion, he stated it might not have a destructive impression on the police’s efforts to combat drug crimes.
On the opposite, enforcement operations would be additional enhanced and other than specializing in detaining drug lords, police would additionally change its technique to detect drug syndicate leaders with the cooperation of enforcement companies, he added. – Bernama
