Undeterred by the challenges that Kashmir often throws up, two women police officers have launched a crusade to rescue young men from the clutches of drug addiction in the valley.
Two women DCPs of Jammu and Kashmir police namely Nizla Angmo and Farah Nishat have resolved to fight the growing problem of drug addiction in the UT and rescue youth who have fallen prey to the menace.
Last month, Angmo along with a team, visited Budgam district’s Nasrullah Pora area and conducted a raid to catch drug peddlers. She was welcomed with open arms by the locals in the area. The people shouted slogans in her support and against drug addiction.
Angmo’s crusade to free Nasrullah Pora of drug addiction commenced after police caught a notorious drug peddler from the locality and confiscated psychotropic substances like Chlorodiapoxide, Tramadol, alprazolam and Clonazepam tablets from him.
She said that before entering the village she met a few elderly persons in the village. The village elders provided her with a list of 10 people who, allegedly, indulged in drug peddling and drug addiction and asked the DCP to undertake action against them.
“Half of the addicts have voluntarily admitted themselves in different hospitals,” Angmo said.
The young officer happily said, that the people’s reaction favouring her efforts has given her immense encouragement.
Farah Nishat, posted at Srinagar’s Rajbagh Police Station, has also initiated a crusade against drug addiction in her territorial jurisdiction.
In the past two months, Nishat has carried out operations against drug dealing in Srinagar. Her operations have resulted in the arrest of nearly six drug peddlers and seizure of contraband substances in large quantities.
the people of the area are approaching her to arrest drug addicts.
“People in Kashmir are very cooperative and support the police against drug addiction,” Nishat said.
Lauding the people’s support in the fight against drug addiction, she added that the people in Kashmir are cooperative, decent, supportive and honest.
