The Director of the Anti-Narcotics Directorate at the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters, Colonel Taher Ghareeb Al-Dhaheri, confirmed that possession of drugs on narcotics schedules, with a view to transporting them to and from friends or relatives, inside or outside the country, subjected the traveler to security and criminal accountability, calling on departing and arriving in the State. To obtain official approval from the Ministry of Health and Community Protection, they are allowed to possess these drugs, because good faith will not make them immune to sanctions.
Al-Dhaheri linked terrorist activities to the drug trade, pointing out that terrorist groups and organizations rely on this type of trade to finance their criminal activities.
He said during a lecture he gave yesterday at the Al Bateen Council in Abu Dhabi, that the time of Maghrib prayer in Ramadan, is the best time from the point of view of smugglers to smuggle drugs, as they try to exploit the busy police officers breakfast.
Al-Dhaheri began his lecture by emphasizing that the land, sea and air crossings of the state have a sophisticated system of inspection and surveillance.
During the lecture, which was organized by the Office of Councils Affairs of the Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, he revealed that the seaports are from the hot spots, which are witnessing constant attempts to smuggle drugs. At the ports for drug trafficking, they pursue professional criminal methods.
"The most common means of air smuggling is to swallow pills and keep them in the stomach," he said. This is why traders are keen to choose people of certain nationalities (Asian and African) are obese, in order to accommodate the stomach a greater amount of drugs, to be emptied thereafter through the anus. This amount can sometimes amount to 142 narcotic pills, which means that the smuggler may carry in the stomach equivalent to 200 thousand dirhams ».
"Despite the fact that the country's airports receive tens of millions of passengers every year, this huge amount of human beings are handled accurately according to the highest methods of inspection and detection of smuggling in the world."
Al-Dhaheri also touched on the most famous methods of smuggling through land ports, pointing out that these ports represent 42.2% of the total outlets nationwide, so drug dealers seek to exploit the cover of land trade in smuggling operations with advanced professional methods.
"Over the past two years, large land carriers that have entered the country have been seized as transporting commercial goods, but drug traffickers have used them as a smuggling device by hiding narcotics in car tires or truck bodies," he said.
He warned travelers through the country's ports of the consequences and consequences of bringing and possessing prescription drugs prohibited by UAE laws, taking into account that these practices constitute a crime, stressing that good intentions in transporting drugs inside or outside the country does not exempt from criminal and security responsibility.
He also called for arriving and departing from the State to abide by the provisions of the Ministry of Health and Community Protection Decision regarding procedures and controls for taking narcotic drugs or monitoring with passengers when entering or leaving the State, pointing out that the incoming person must obtain approval from the authorities of his country to possess any kind of drugs. Drugs on the schedules of narcotic substances, to be approved by the UAE Embassy in his country, which in turn belongs to the Ministry of Health and Community Protection, before traveling there. Al-Dhaheri said that the decision, issued last September, required the departure of the state to obtain prior permission from the Ministry of Health when taking controlled medicines for personal use.
“Global reports indicate that the narcotics trade is witnessing significant growth and development globally. Its traders have become more capable and efficient in manufacturing and adjusting their chemical properties to maximize financial gains,” he said. For example, it may cost the trader 200 dirhams to manufacture narcotic drugs and drugs, to reap the amounts of selling between 20 and 25 thousand dirhams, stressing that the UAE ranks among the low countries in the rates of addiction in the world ».
He pointed out that the risks of promotion and trafficking in narcotic substances are not limited to destroying the health of the individual or the economic costs that they may incur, but also to include financing of “terrorism”, as drugs are an important source of funding for terrorist organizations, and support their efforts to attract and recruit terrorist elements.
He confirmed that official reports showed that most of the suicide bombers committed their terrorist crimes, and they are under the influence of narcotics.
3 types of drugs
Narcotic substances are divided into three types: «natural», a drug produced directly from natural plants such as cannabis, opium and cannabis. And "manufactured", a drug extracted from the natural anesthetic after chemical operations to convert to other types, such as morphine, heroin and cocaine. Psychotropic substances, a compound drug made from chemical agents and other compounds, have the same effect, including analgesic, hypnotic and hallucinogenic substances.
Behaviors reveal an addict
Eight behavioral variables that parents should observe in their children, according to the Director of the Anti-Narcotics Directorate, at the Abu Dhabi Police General Headquarters, Colonel Taher Ghareeb Al Dhaheri, because they may be an indication of substance abuse, including the drop in school level unusually, with frequent absence from school, Deterioration of physical health, excessive sleep and laziness, lack of attention to the external appearance, along with changes in other behaviors (such as confidentiality of life, lying, making excuses, too late outside the house), in addition to the increase in cash and the urgency to ask for more, and the presence of some strange tools Like scissors erased Parchment, burnt spoon, syringe.
On the methods of promoting narcotics, Al-Dhaheri said that the drug promoter and psychotropic substances follow several methods, including the illusion of young people that the drug can contribute to increase their sexual ability or slimming the body or increase activity. He stressed that the main reasons for the relapse of the recovering from addiction lies in the fact that society does not encourage him to integrate into public life, and to reject and avoid it. He said that the Abu Dhabi Police gives high priority to the file of drug control, and that the greater awareness of the efforts of the Agency is focused on youth, pointing to the initiative «Bus Bader», which is touring schools and universities to raise awareness about this scourge.