44 tons of drugs discovered in 32 provinces in a month

KABUL (Agencies): Officials of the Ministry of Interior say that in the last one month, 293 operations were conducted in 32 provinces of the country, as a result of which 44 tons of drugs were discovered and confiscated.
Abdul Nafee Takwar, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday in a press conference in Kabul shared the past one-month achievements of the Ministry with the media. in the sectors of criminal offenses, public services, passport, traffic, fight against drugs, professional education.
He said that in the last one month, 1169 different criminal incidents have been committed in the country, of which 881 incidents have been detected and identified by the National Police.
According to his information; 1,621 accused and suspects have been arrested by the police and their cases have been handed over to judicial bodies.
The detainees were accused of kidnapping, murder, armed robbery, rape, extortion, traffic accidents, use of alcoholic beverages, drug trafficking, forgery, harassment, transporting illegal weapons he added.
He said 50 types of weapons, ammunition and equipment, alcoholic beverages and a quantity of drugs have been seized by the security forces.
He says that during this time, about 5,000 petitions of the citizens, which do not lead to criminal responsibility, have been executed, and hundreds of petitions, inquiries and suggestions are also executed every day.
According to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Interior; Since the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, some 764 passports have been distributed, from which 4 billion 466 million Afghanis have been received. Also, 4,500 visas were given to foreign nationals, through which about one million dollars in revenue was collected.
According to Takwar’s comments; the anti-narcotics police, in the last month, conducted 293 operations in 32 provinces of the country, as a result of which about 44 tons of narcotics drugs were seized by police.
During the conducted operations, eight drug processing factories were destroyed and 50,000 hectares of land were cleared of poppy cultivation. Also, more than 500 drug addicts have been collected by the police and sent to health centers.
Abdul Nafee Takwar said that in the last one month, 6,000 policemen have graduated from 10 police educational centers after professional training, and about 8,000 more policemen are engaged in professional and vocational training in educational centers.
He asked all citizens to cooperate with the forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in order to ensure better security, so that the level of criminal offenses in the center and provinces of the country can be reduced to zero.
It is worth saying that the Department of Education and Training of the Ministry of Interior has been able to graduate about 50,000 policemen after professional and primary education in the past one year to serve the citizens.