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Deputy Police Chief Hails High Security at Iran’s Borders

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Iran’s Deputy Police Chief Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Radan said security status along Iran’s borders is in desirable conditions, yet the country’s border guards should be further reinforced.
Radan pointed to the reinforcement of Iran’s border police forces, and said, “According to the goals and programs of the police force, the massive and effective presence of police troops along sea borders is among the key programs of the police in campaign against drug trafficking.”

He also said that Iranian police’s anti-drug squads have discovered and seized a considerable amount of illicit drugs in the first four months of the current Iranian year (started March 21).

“More than 165 tons of various types of narcotics have been discovered and seized in the first four months of the current year in the country,” Radan said.

According to the World Drug Report 2012, the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2010 was ranked first in terms of opium and heroin seizures, accounting for 81% of the world opium seizures and 34% of the world heroin seizures.

According to the UNODC, these days, 93 percent of the world’s opium is produced in the neighboring Afghanistan, 60 per cent of which is destined for the EU and specially US markets, and the main transit route is Iran, where the country’s dedicated police squad risk their lives to make the most discoveries of drug cargoes, disband drug-trafficking gangs and organizations and much more in a bid to rescue not only the Iranian youth but also all those living in Europe and the US.

More than 3720 Iranian police troops have been killed fighting drug smugglers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Iran has recently established a central database and strengthened police-judiciary cooperation in a new effort to combat organized crime.

Every year, Iran burns more than 60 tons of seized narcotics as a symbol of its determination to fight drugs.

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