TIRANA, Dec 10 /ATA/ – The State Police Director General, Gledis Nano, stated on Friday that trafficking to Italy has dropped 100%, from 911 kg in the same period last year to zero this year.
In his address to the Conference organized with the Public Security Department of the Italian Ministry of Interior on the fight against cannabis cultivation, Nano stressed that, “State Police were fully committed to achieving the objectives and implementing the measures spelled out in the strategic documents, especially the Strategy Against Organized Crime and Serious Crimes 2021-2025 and the Action Plan.”
“Based on these strategic documents, as well as the analysis of problems identified during 2020, but also in previous years, the General Directorate of State Police drafted and implemented the Action Plan on prevention and fight against cultivation of narcotics for 2021 “, he said.
He added that, “the action plan focused on the following directions: Raising community awareness; Non-stop control of the territory, aiming at preventing and nipping this phenomenon in the bud; Intensifying informative-tracking and investigative activity for the detection and crackdown on the criminal activity of trading in the seeds of narcotic plants and the organizers of the cultivation and trafficking of cannabis sativa; Increasing cooperation with the local government, the Ministry of Defense and all other stakeholders involved in the Action Plan, as well as stepping up international cooperation, mainly with Italian partners; Identifying and punishing employees of the administration and those in Police Force, who neglect or cooperate in various forms in the cultivation of narcotic plants.
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