Transit centre for drugs
NZPA Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has been used as a transit centre for drug traffickers taking drugs from SouthEast Asia to Australia and New Zealand, Papua New Guinea’s Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Ebia Olewale) has said. Mr Olewale told the P.N.G. Parliament his Government co-operated closely with drug authorities in Australia and South-East Asia to combat the trafficking and as a result some large shipments of drugs had been intercepted. Mr Olewale said P.N.G. now had specialist antinarcotic sections in its Police and Customs Departments. “Our next intention is to form a national drug bureau from both the Police and Customs Departments,” Mr Olewale said.
He said tourists and other visitors were being increasingly checked to help detect drug traffickers, and Australian authorities were helping train Papua New Guineans in this work.
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