Colonel Taher Ghareeb Al Dhaheri, Director of the Anti-Narcotics Directorate at the Criminal Security Sector at the General Command of Abu Dhabi Police, confirmed that all land, sea and air crossings of the state have a modern and sophisticated system of inspection and surveillance systems, which contributed to enhancing their ability to fight drug smugglers and psychotropic substances. This is part of an integrated national strategy to combat the scourge of narcotic drugs and to put in place the optimal measures to prevent and reduce their causes.
Al Dhaheri spoke at a lecture organized by the Office of Councils Affairs, which is affiliated to the Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, yesterday evening, at the Al Bateen Council in Abu Dhabi, on the "prevention of drug damage" - about the methods and methods used by smugglers and people to try to bring drugs into the country, saying: "Maritime ports are especially permanent hot spots for drug trafficking attempts , Where drug dealers exploit containers and large traffic in these ports to smuggle drugs and professional criminal methods, which complicates the seizure. "
He continued: "For smuggling through air ports, the most common method is to swallow it in the form of pills and keep it in the stomach, so traders are keen to choose people of certain nationalities (Asian and African) are obese in order to accommodate the largest amount of drugs, that They then emptied them through the anus. "
Al-Dhaheri also touched on the most famous smuggling routes through land ports, pointing out that during the past two years large land carriers have been seized entered the state as a transport of commercial goods, but drug dealers used them as a means of smuggling by hiding drugs in either tires or truck bodies ".