My thanks to Tuan Khairul Anwar Bin Bachok, the Deputy Director of National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) who came to our office recently together with Tuan Abdul Hamediee bin Ibrahim, the Director of AADK Sarawak.
It has been quite a while for us to meet the guests from Putra Jaya, Kuala Lumpur and they are in Kuching for this year's meeting for the Sarawak level Drugs Prevention Action Council (MBDM) at Bangunan Baitul Makmur II, Petra Jaya Kuching.
Tuan Khairul shared the good news on the approval of drug sniffer dogs for Sarawak after we made the call to the Federal Government.
I have highlighted such requirements in view of the massive size of the state, but having a small number of enforcement personnel. Sarawak is such a huge state. Drugs can enter from many places, which is why we need more dogs to detect them.
Humans cannot detect drugs (without the use of devices), but dogs can. However, we cannot just buy or train more dogs because this is under the jurisdiction of the federal government. They (drug sniffer dogs) must be taken care of carefully and a special budget is allocated to take care of them if they are in service for the law enforcement.
As Sarawak's chairman of Malaysia Drugs Prevention Association (Pemadam), I also stressed on the importance of having more drug sniffer dogs in Sarawak as there were too few canines trained for that purpose, and in this regard, he urged the federal government to set an allocation meant to purchase and train more dogs to be placed at entry points around our nation
Malaysia already having many airports, ports, immigration posts and parcel offices, where drugs could potentially be smuggled in, there were just not enough sniffer dogs to be deployed. Members of the public are concerned with the increase in the number of drug abuse and smuggling cases in the country, including in Sarawak, where it has now spread to villages, homes and farming areas in the interiors.
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