Cocaine valued at £5 million was seized from a light aircraft at an East Yorkshire airfield in the UK, following joint operations by members of the NCA and Border Force. Many Mexaican citizens believe that the 43 missing and possibly dead students in Iguala reveal the increasing connection between corruption and violence which indicate failures…
Afghanistan poppy cultivation is estimated to have hit an all-time high despite the international counter-narcotics efforts. The US has spent an estimated USD $7.5bn in an attempt to curb the phenomenon. At present, opium-poppy is being cultivated on 209,000 hectares (516,230 acres) of land in Afghanistan, indicating a 36% increase from 2012. A report released…
Argentina is reportedly becoming a major drug-trafficking hub in Latin America. Several Latin-American countries have adopted shoot-down laws, which allow countries to shoot down suspected drug trafficking flights, in an attempt to curb aerial drug trafficking. Four people were arrested in the Kenyan port of Mombasa on suspicions of drug trafficking. A group of four…
The US led ‘war on drugs’ initiated in 1971, by then President Richard Nixon still informs the American approach to drug control. Given the global, widespread and complex nature of the problem, many other actors have come to realise that there are alternative ways of dealing with drugs in society, incorporating different strands including harm…
700 kilograms of cocaine were discovered in a shipment from Guatemala by a Spanish freight company in Esparreguera. 5.4 kilograms of cocaine valued at €378,000 was discovered by authorities in sweets consignments at Dublin airport Another 5.4 kilograms of cocaine valued at HK$5.5 million were found in cans of pineapple at Hong Kong airport. 13…
224 kilograms of methamphetamine valued at USD $18 million were seized and 22 suspects arrested by police authorities as a Mexico-U.S narco-trafficking ring was dismantled Links between police and drug trafficking has been blamed for Ecuador’s rise as a drug transit territory The European commission praised the efforts of Albania in fighting organised crime and…
The Home Office in the UK has published a report on approaches to drug misuse and addiction in other countries. The report concludes an 18-month study of international comparators in drugs policy, announced by the government in March 2013. As part of the study ministers and officials visited nine countries to see how governments and…
Ronald K. Noble the US Law Professor who has led the organisation for the past 14 years is stepping down and is due to be replaced by Jürgen Stock, the vice president of the German Federal Criminal Police. One of the first issues that the incumbent will have to consider is whether to collect a…
