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Shillong: A total of 610 persons have been arrested for trafficking drugs worth over Rs 300 crore in Meghalaya during the last two years.
This was informed by Meghalaya Social Welfare Minister, Paul Lyngdoh after addressing a multi-stakeholder symposium organized under Drug Reduction Elimination & Action Mission (DREAM) in observance of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking here on Wednesday. This year’s theme is “The evidence is clear: invest in prevention”.
Speaking to reporters, Lyngdoh said that more needs to be done and that is why the state government has decided to involve leaders of the community in actually assisting the police in enforcing laws against drugs.
“What was lacking all along was community participation. It was there but it was limited to efforts like deaddiction and counselling but for us to proactively engage with the community it would be to get the community to be part of policing, which is why the very important missing link this government has fi
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