Ras Al Khaimah shuts down 25 social media accounts for promoting drugs

Ras Al Khaimah: Ras Al Khaimah Police have closed down a minimum of 25 social media accounts that have been getting used to advertise sale and consumption of drugs within the emirate, mentioned Major Abdel (*25*) Al-Shirawi, Head of Anti-Narcotics Operations at Ras Al Khaimah Police.

According to RAK Police, the drug sellers and traffickers have been making an attempt to evade the police and promote unlawful substances by their private social media accounts. Police mentioned the Anti-Narcotics Department has set-up an digital drug management patrol group that screens social media accounts for such actions. The director-general of the division mentioned the group coordinates with the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority to dam and shut down social networking accounts and web sites discovered violating the legislation. He urged dad and mom to observe their kids to make sure they're refrained from such web sites and to report any suspicious websites to the police.

RAK Police’s warning to oldsters got here shut on the heels of the division observing International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which was on June 26.

Major Al Shirawi burdened on the significance of households and oldsters cooperating with the police and different competent authorities in making certain the security of their kids and defending them from falling into the entice of drug habit or drug trafficking. He cautioned that drugs have critical well being and psychological results on the customers.

Major Al Shirawi acknowledged that 60 per cent of the households who voluntarily sought assist from the police to get their kids out of drug habit most popular to go for direct therapy on the competent well being establishments, whereas the remaining 40 per cent most popular therapy beneath the supervision of the Drug Control Department.

Major Al Shirawi added that the campaigns carried out by the Anti-Narcotics Department, in cooperation and coordination with different departments in Ras Al Khaimah Police General Command, contributed in the direction of elevating the extent of public consciousness on the hazards of drugs.