Tribratanews.polri.go.id. - Serang. As a commitment to make efforts to prevent, eradicate and abuse drugs, the Drugs Directorate of the Banten Regional Police launched the Anti-Drug Tangguh Village in Sukadiri Village, Kasunyatan Village, Kasemen District, Serang City, Wednesday (08/25/2021).
The declaration of a tough anti-drug village was marked by pressing the tab/fiPad, the declaration of an anti-drug tough village and the installation of armbands to the task force, followed by reading the anti-drug declaration.
The Deputy Chief of Banten Regional Police said that, in the Designation of the Drug Resilient Village, the Banten Regional Police cannot work alone but requires synergy with all relevant agencies along with community components to play an active role in carrying out various programs or activities, so that "a drug-resistant village towards a drug-free village" can be realized.
"In some areas, especially Banten Province, it is an area that is a vulnerable route for drug trafficking traffic between provinces in Indonesia. Not only as a circulation route, Banten is also still vulnerable as a transit and production place. Dealers use various ways to get the illicit goods through. Banten area. These dealers take advantage of it," explained the Deputy Chief of Regional Police.
The Deputy Chief of regional Police also advised to always increase the supervision of the entry of drug trafficking on land routes and crossings on the coast of the Banten Regional Police jurisdiction, both from Sumatra to Java and vice versa.
The COVID-19 pandemic that is still happening in Indonesia massively to smuggle drugs, currently they use a lot of land and sea routes with the mode of smuggling when sending logistics for handling COVID-19, not only that, they also often use the expedition mode to trick the officers. The data on the disclosure of drug trafficking cases for the period from January to July 2021 were 474 cases, 428 cases were completed and 624 suspects were arrested," said the Deputy Chief of Regional Police.
Finally, the Deputy Chief of Regional Police emphasized that all parties must provide education and socialize the anti-drug campaign through direct guidance and counseling (BINLUH) to the community, installation of anti-drug slogans through banners, posters by involving the role of social media as a means for the community to remind each other so as not to fall into the trap. use or abuse drugs.
