TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Defense Ministry in a statement released on Saturday appreciated the country's Law Enforcement Force for its efforts and services, and said these efforts have enhanced security in the Iranian society.


"Due to its all-out and reassuring preparedness, the Law Enforcement Force has become a source of power, calm and people's trust and a cause of fright and concern for the enemies as well as criminals and aggressors to the rights of the different classes of society," said the statement released on the occasion of the 'Police Week' in Iran which started on October 5.

"The Law Enforcement Force has also improved the social security index of the country at the global scale," it stressed.

The Iranian Law Enforcement Force has always been active in safeguarding the country's borders, fighting drug traffickers and terrorists and foiling the plots hatched by the enemies to carry out terrorist operations in the country.

Eastern Iran borders Afghanistan, which is the world's number one opium and drug producer. Iran's geographical position has made the country a favorite transit corridor for drug traffickers who intend to smuggle their cargoes from Afghanistan to drug dealers in Europe.

Iran spends billions of dollars and has lost thousands of its police troops in the war against traffickers. Owing to its rigid efforts, Iran makes 81 percent of the world's total opium seizures and has turned into the leading country in drug campaign.

Sistan and Balouchestan province, where Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan come together, has porous borders, where bandits and drug traffickers operate despite frequent entanglements and intense efforts of the Iranian law enforcement police.

More than 3,720 Iranian security personnel have been killed fighting drug smugglers since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The anti-drug squads of the Iranian Law Enforcement Police have intensified their countrywide campaign against drug-trafficking through staging long-term systematic operations since 2010.

The Iranian anti-narcotic police have always staged periodic, but short-term, operations against drug traffickers and dealers, but the latest reports - which among others indicate an improved and systematic dissemination of information - reveal that the world's most forefront and dedicated anti-narcotic force (as UN drug-campaign assessments put it) has embarked on a long-term countrywide plan to crack down on the drug trade since three years ago.

By Fars News Agency

 

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