Hanoi (VNA) – President TranDai Quang lauded individuals and collectives who stood out in the fight againstdrug during a meeting held in Hanoi on December 9.
Over the past years, the Party andState have issued a number of policies and measures to combat the traffickingof addictive substances and drug-related crimes.
Since 1997, the anti-drug police haveuncovered 172,000 cases, arrested more than 283,000 offenders, and confiscatedover 3,179kg of heroin, 4,558 kg of opium, 30,000kg of dried marijuana, 87kg ofcocaine, 1,044kg and about 1.7 million methamphetamine pills, together withweapons and assets worth thousands of billion VND.
They also busted and eradicated 7,872drug hot-spots.
A number of effective anti-drugmodels in residential areas have been duplicated nationwide.
Speaking at the meeting, PresidentQuang described the anti-drug campaign as a crucial, urgent and long-term taskof the world and Vietnam in particular.
He asked the Party committees andauthorities at all levels to direct the campaign, considering it a regularpolitical task, while mobilising collective power to realise the nationalstrategy on drug prevention and control until 2020 with orientations towards 2030.
The State leader urged the anti-drugpolice to work closely with border and coast guards, local customs and police,and concerned agencies to fight trans-national drug rings, eradicate drugmanufacture and storage areas, and prevent the re-plantation of plantscontaining addictive substances.
Relevant agencies were requested toimprove the efficiency of collaboration with their foreign counterparts,especially those in neighbouring countries, as well as effectively combat thesmuggling of drugs into Vietnam and raise public awareness of drug danger andcomplicated tricks of drug dealers.
The outstanding people will also latergather at a ceremony, which will also commemorate 22 officers and people wholaid down their lives for the anti-drug effort.
It forms activities celebrating the20th anniversary of traditional day of Anti-Drug Police (March 12)./.
Meetings were held in Hanoi and Nam Dinh province on June 16-17 to respond to the Action Month on Drug Prevention and Control and the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
Two Lao drug traffickers with nearly 11kg of heroin have been detained by anti-drug forces of the central province of Thanh Hoa and the neighbouring Lao province of Houaphan.
A man has been caught carrying 21 bricks of heroin weighing 7.4kg in Tan Phong hamlet, Si Pa Phin commune, Nam Po district, the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.
Anti-drug crime police of northern Hoa Binh province and relevant forces caught red-handed two individuals transporting 20 bricks of heroin and 2,000 synthetic drug pills on the night of November 23.
The 16th Tripartite and Bipartite Ministerial Conference of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos on Drug Prevention and Control opened in Phnom Penh on December 6.
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At the meeting (Source: VNA) 
