117. The Narcotics Bureau, which is controlled by a Senior Superintendent of Police, responsible to the Director of Criminal Investigation, continues to function as an intelligence collection and collation centre for narcotics informa- tion, both of a domestic and international nature. In the international field it maintains a close liaison with other narcotics suppression agencies throughout the world.
118. Police action against the internal traffic is taken at three levels. The Force Narcotics Squad, formed two years ago and now integrated with the Narcotics Bureau, concentrates its efforts mainly against the major and well organized heroin distribution syndicates. At the two urban District Headquar- ters a District Drug Squad operates against special targets of distribution and consumption whilst at Divisional level vice squads are concerned in the control of the peddling and consumption of drugs within the divisional area.
119. Heroin is the main drug of addiction; part of the demand of local addicts for this drug, which is consumed in conjunction with barbitone, is met from external sources and part by local illicit laboratories which process morphine base into heroin. Four such laboratories were detected during the year.
120. In February 1965, the Narcotics Bureau made the largest single seizure of drugs in the Colony's history. It comprised over 2 tons of opium and morphine and was one of the largest seizures of drugs ever made anywhere in the world.
121. During the year the Government was represented by members of the Bureau at the United Nations Consultative Group on Narcotics Control in South East Asia held in Manila and at a Colombo Plan sponsored Seminar on Narcotics Control held in Tokyo. The Director of Criminal Investigation also attended the I.C.P.O.-Interpol Seminar on Narcotics held in Paris. In October 1964, a Seminar on Drug Addiction was held in the Colony at which all aspects of the problem were discussed. A number of Police officers parti- cipated.
122. During the year a total of 19,647 narcotic offences were recorded and 14,088 persons prosecuted. These figures relate to both serious and minor narcotics offences, details of which are at Appendices 17 and 18.
123. Total seizures by the Police and Preventive Service were greater than for any previous year:
Raw Opium
Prepared Opium
Morphine and morphine hydrochloride Heroin (Diacetylmorphine hydrochloride) Heroin pills, pill mixture and pink mass Barbitone
1964-65 1963-64 2,645-409 kilos (1,472-251)
47.962 kilos ( 61-385)
91.994)
285.462 kilos (
75.157 kilos (109-750)
8.796 kilos (
8-873)
8.796 kilos (
8-873)
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