The Public Affairs and Drug Demand Reduction Unit of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency the Gambia (DLEAG) last week conducted a week long regional schools sensitization tour targeting selected schools within the Upper River Region (URR), Central River Region (CRR), and the Lower River Region.
Bakary Gassama, the Director General of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency The Gambia (DLEAG), has underscored his agency’s readiness to work with partners in their quest to intensify and strengthen their interdiction and supply suppression mechanisms.
“To those harbouring drug dealers and traffickers, your days are numbered. Sooner than you expect, either the law will catch up with you or you will become a victim of your own doing and the architect of your own destruction,” he warned.
On Tuesday 16th April 2019 selected participants from The Drug Law Enforcement Agency The Gambia (DLEAG), Ministry of Health, Department of Social Welfare, Religious Leaders, Supportive Activist Foundation (SAF), Journalist Against Illicit Drug Trafficking and Organised Crime (JAIDTOC) etc completed the second cycle of Training of the Trainers (ToT) on the Universal Substance Use Disorder Treatment Curriculum (UTC) at the Senegambia Beach Hotel from the 8 - 16 April 2019.
As part of it strategy to enhance national capacities to detect and investigate cross border organised crime in The Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Senegal, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with funding from German Government organised a two weeks training program on criminal intelligence analysis for law enforcement officers in The Gambia.
SOME RELEVENT PROVISIONS OF THR DRUG CONTROL ACT 2003 REVISED LAWS OF THE GAMBIA
The anti narcotics unit now known as the Drug Law Enforcement Agency (DLEAG) was before the year 2005 a unit within the Gambia Police Force (GPF) known as the drug squad a name that it’s still widely known by.
