(VOV) – Border guards from Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province and Laos’ Houaphanh province discussed the 2013-2014 strategy against border narcotics crime at a meeting on November 15.
- Drug-related crimes escalate
- Drug-related crimes remain complicated
- Increasing capacity for combating drug-related crime
Measures include initiatives to involve the community in crime prevention, support addicts through recovery, and stop the cross-border trade of illicit narcotics.
The two provinces will focus on neutralising drug production at its source and interrupting trafficking chains.
Public information campaigns will be expanded, with handouts published in both languages. Progress reports to key central and local officials will also be issued more regularly and rigorously.
Officials hope the new campaigns will encourage locals to abandon poppy cultivation and eliminate drugs from their communities.
Thanh Hoa and Houaphanh have cooperated on a number of information campaigns in the past. They regularly receive assistance from local residents, including in the October 2012 arrest of a Lao couple intercepted while trafficking 116kg of heroin into Thanh Hoa.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
