Ho Chi Minh City deployed all functional forces in the early hours ofDecember 5 in an effort to search for homeless drug addicts and sendthem to rehabilitation centres.
In District 8, oneof the City’s “hot spots” of drug-related evils, the police,night-watchmen, and ward-level security men collected 50 drug addicts.
Meanwhile, at District 12, the functional forcespatrolled and checked An Suong flyover area at Trung My Tay ward, one ofthe district’s ‘dark’ spots of drug use, and took suspects to theward’s office.
Mai Van Tho, chairman of District12’s Trung My Tay Ward People’s Committee, said that the ward mobilisedall forces to examine ‘hot’ spots in the area as well as checking allsuspected hotels and guesthouses.
Actions have been taken to ensure security and order at An Suong flyover area, the ward’s most troubled area, Tho said.
The forces in District 5 also patrolled streets in the areasurrounding Cho Ray Hospital , and Hong Bang and Pham Huu Tristreets.
According to the municipal People’sCommittee, the City currently has records of over 19,000 drug addicts.Of the recorded 8,000 who are currently in treatment-education-labourcentres, 60 percent are from other localities or homeless.
The Committee said the real figure could be 50-70 percent higherbecause a large number of synthesised drug addicts had yet to becounted.
The December 5 raid is part of a project onmanaging drug addicts before they are sent to compulsory rehabilitationservices to recover their health.
The project aimsto help limit the growth of new addicts and the risk of spreading HIV bythose people to the community as well as contributing to reducingcrimes and social evils in the city, the Committee said.-VNA
In District 8, oneof the City’s “hot spots” of drug-related evils, the police,night-watchmen, and ward-level security men collected 50 drug addicts.
Meanwhile, at District 12, the functional forcespatrolled and checked An Suong flyover area at Trung My Tay ward, one ofthe district’s ‘dark’ spots of drug use, and took suspects to theward’s office.
Mai Van Tho, chairman of District12’s Trung My Tay Ward People’s Committee, said that the ward mobilisedall forces to examine ‘hot’ spots in the area as well as checking allsuspected hotels and guesthouses.
Actions have been taken to ensure security and order at An Suong flyover area, the ward’s most troubled area, Tho said.
The forces in District 5 also patrolled streets in the areasurrounding Cho Ray Hospital , and Hong Bang and Pham Huu Tristreets.
According to the municipal People’sCommittee, the City currently has records of over 19,000 drug addicts.Of the recorded 8,000 who are currently in treatment-education-labourcentres, 60 percent are from other localities or homeless.
The Committee said the real figure could be 50-70 percent higherbecause a large number of synthesised drug addicts had yet to becounted.
The December 5 raid is part of a project onmanaging drug addicts before they are sent to compulsory rehabilitationservices to recover their health.
The project aimsto help limit the growth of new addicts and the risk of spreading HIV bythose people to the community as well as contributing to reducingcrimes and social evils in the city, the Committee said.-VNA
