Thailand’s anti-narcotics board plans crackdown

The Office of the Narcotics Control Board of Thailand aims to arrest 10,000 blacklisted drug dealers in one year and get 400,000 drug addicts into rehabilitation programmes.

Presenting the policy to the board’s executives yesterday, secretary-general Pol General Adul Sangsingkaew said the urgent mission was to propel forward the National Command Centre for Drugs strategy. It would include two meetings per month and formulate the action plan for three months, six months, nine months and one year.

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