Twin-city top cop focuses on drug menace

The Hubballi police commissionerate is set to take tough measures to curb the sale of drugs in the twin cities on Thursday. New police commissioner Raman Gupta said that drug peddlers and offenders involved in smuggling of drugs and substances in commercial quantities will be dealt with an iron hand. The properties of drug peddlers who have been arrested twice for the same offence will be attached by the police under the NDPS act. This action cannot be taken in all cases, but he said that he has already experimented this in Bengaluru. To curb the drug menace all must join hands with the police and we will seek support from public ngos and other institutions including the district administration to sensitise youths and college students on the impact of drugs and the action they will face if caught consuming drugs more awareness campaigns on drugs will be held in the days to come. He said that hoysala teams will be provided additional training to reduce their response time. Efforts will be made to make our system more peoplefriendly by taking complaints from and issuing an fir copy within one or two hours and we will also not keep complainants waiting too long. Senior officers will be directed to focus on the trial of the cases and monitor and review the trial. On the rising cases of