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Cops to use dogs to check ganja trade
The State police has decided to deploy sniffer dogs to unearth stacks of ganja being smuggled out of the Agency area. The inter-state ganja smugglers have been adopting innovative methods to dodge the police and the excise officials over the last few years which resulted in alarming growth of the illegal trade in the Agency.
Visakhapatnam: The State police has decided to deploy sniffer dogs to unearth stacks of ganja being smuggled out of the Agency area. The inter-state ganja smugglers have been adopting innovative methods to dodge the police and the excise officials over the last few years which resulted in alarming growth of the illegal trade in the Agency.
Highlights:
- Proposal has been sent to the state govt
- Smugglers have been adopting innovative methods to transport marijuana
Since the police cannot reach the interior Agency areas to destroy the crops due to presence of Maoists and their sympathisers, they have decided to set up check-posts with armed personnel and sniffer dogs.“We have to train the dogs since nowhere in India it was experimented,’’
said superintendent of police (Vizag rural)Rahul Dev Sharma.Talking to this correspondent here on Saturday, the SP said proposals have been sent to the government and if they are through, initially two dogs would be deployed at some strategic check-point in the Agency.
Later on another check point with dog squad would be set up bordering East Godavari district.Ganja smugglers are making specially designed cabins beneath the cargo cabins and transporting the ganja in trucks, oil tankers and also ambulances to Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Odisha from Vizag Agency. Recently, the police found trucks lined with packets of ganja beneath the cargo cabin.
The SP said enforcement officials often failed to sense the ganja in the vehicles as the smugglers have been packing the ganja in six layers of polythene cover and concealing them in specially designed cabins in the vehicles. Only a tip off will lead to the seizure of the vehicles. But trained dogs can detect marijuana effectively even if the smugglers packed the hemp in specially designed cabins in the vehicles.
The weed is grown 10,000 acres in Vizag Agency but it is harvested more in Odisha bordering Andhra Pradesh. Since it is difficult to transport through Odisha due to heavy presence of paramilitary forces, smugglers mostly choose routes leading to Narsipatnam and from there to Visakhapatnam city.
By KMP Patnaik
