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Police push for mandatory jail term for dr_g offenders

June 10, 2024
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Police arrest 28 more drug dealers

Stack of twenty dollar bills with prescription pill bottles spilling out over top of them

Police are pushing for the amendment of the law to have a jail term imposed on all illegal dr_g and substance dealers without an option of a fine as part of deterrent measures to deal with the scourge in the country.

This comes as law enforcement agents have arrested 5 364 people from January to end of March this year, with 4 962, generally the users holding small quantities rather than the dealers, being released after paying deposit fines.

Even when there is no proof of dealing, police take holders of larger stocks of dr_gs, suspected to be dealers, to court and refuse to let them pay the deposit fines that a user with a single dose can often get away with.

However, courts have at times been allowing some possessors of larger amounts of dru_gs to pay fines, although others have been jailed.

Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe spoke of the police pressure, when answering questions in the National Assembly last week.

Glen View North MP, Mr Happymore Chidziva (CCC) had asked what the Government was doing to curb the widespread challenge of dr_g and substance use.

Minister Kazembe said they were in the process of having the law amended.

“This office recommends custodial sentences in all issues to do with dr_g and substance ab_se as a deterrent to end the scourge.

“However, our recommendations have been referred to the Attorney General’s Office, who has the duty to draft amendments to the existing laws.

“Recommendations by this office for amendment of all the existing laws to deal with dr_g and substance ab_se are being worked on by the policy and legal pillar to the National Elimination Committee on drug and substance abuse,” he said.

Outlining what the Government was doing, Minister Kazembe said in a bid to curb the dr_g and substance ab_se scourge, Zimbabwe has established National Elimination Committee on Drug and Substance Abuse (NECDSA), mandated to come up with systematic and sustainable responses that will assist in ensuring that society was free of drug and substance abuse.

“The National Elimination Committee on Drug and Substance Abuse aimed at soliciting involvement of all citizens to participate in eradicating the dr_g and substance ab_se menace.

“Committees are at national, provincial, district and village levels. The committee comprises seven pillars of the dr_g and substance abuse management: demand reduction, supply reduction, harm treatment and rehabilitation, communication, psycho-social support and community reintegration, legal policing pillar, resources mobilisation pillar,” he said.

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