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120,000 busted for drugs in past 6 months

120,000 busted for drugs in past 6 months

80% of population in country’s overcrowded prisons are there for drug offences

Speed pills seized from suspects in nine drug cases are displayed at a briefing by Narcotics Suppression Bureau police in Bangkok in November last year. (File photo)

Police arrested more than 120,000 drug suspects over the past six months, seized 260 million speed pills along with other drugs, and nearly 2.4 billion baht worth of confiscated assets.

Pol Gen Roy Inkhapairoj, deputy national police chief, gave the figures at a briefing on Saturday, following a review of drug-suppression activities for the first six months of the 2021-22 fiscal year to March…

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