Transport police of Kazakhstan and Russia debated measures of drug combat

Its purpose is implementing the CIS Program on combatting international crime, detection and solving of crimes, including within the framework of cross-border cooperation with Internal Affairs Department of the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry.

The relevance of the working meeting confirms the fact that currently the two states are equally experiencing the pressure of a number of factors related to drug trafficking, the threat of proliferation which is becoming every day more and more real and tangible. And this meeting means the next stage and the testimony of the positive development of relations between our countries in the fight against drug abuse and drug trafficking, and further development of international cooperation.

They discussed issues concerning organization of interaction of internal affairs departments on transport in fight against drug trafficking activities in the field of prevention, crime detection and search for criminals, hiding from the preliminary investigation and the procedure for the exchange of information on identified ways to conceal drugs when crossing the Russian -Kazakhstan border through the checkpoints, including the investigation of crimes related to drug trafficking and potent substances.

In addition, the issue, which today is a major concern of law enforcement agencies in our countries, is intensifying migration processes that are in turn used by drug dealers as a channel of movement of drugs across the border, and is the primary source of such manifestations of terrorism and extremism. The parties also discussed the organization of joint activities aimed at preventing and detection of crimes involving theft of goods from vehicles.

After considering all the problematic topics it has been agreed to intensify efforts to combat the smuggling of narcotics, illegal migration, tracing persons evading prosecution authorities, the implementation of the exchange of operational and meaningful information on the activities of organized criminal groups specializing in the field of drug trafficking, theft, with rolling stock and with availability of such information to conduct joint complex search operations and generally expand and make such joint working meetings regular in the future.