Ganja smoker’s detection kits available at police station

RSD- Sircilla news: District SP Akhil Mahajan said that cannabis test kits have been made available to all the police stations in the district to catch those who smoke cannabis, and in every police station, they will conduct a cannabis test on the same day as drunk and drive and catch those who are addicted to it.

The district SP along with Additional SP, Special Branch DSP and Sircilla Town CI unveiled the ganja kits at the district police office on 26.07.2024.

He warned that 390 grams of ganja and 05 ganja cigarettes were seized in the district against 08 people who consumed ganja and those who supplied them by conducting tests with the help of ganja kits.

SP said on this occasion that the district police will create awareness among the public by undertaking petition programs to make it a cannabis-free district, and by carrying out inspections with special drives and narcotic jagillas to check the illicit traffic of ganja in the district.

He said that it has become difficult to identify those who consume cannabis while checking the illicit traffic of cannabis drugs. In this context, Telangana Police can make available cannabis test kits in all police stations to identify those who drink cannabis. In the same way as drunk and drive, cannabis tests will be conducted and those who are addicted to it will be caught. Cannabis users will not be able to escape from the hands of the police from now on.

With the help of ganja kits in the district, in order to see if there has been any change in the behavior of those who were accused in ganja cases in the past, those found roaming suspiciously were taken into custody at Sircilla, Illanthakunta, Ellareddypet, Gambhiravupet police stations and those who tested positive and those who supplied them with ganja were arrested.