Africa-Press – Kenya. British High Commission paid the DCI director Mohamed Amin a courtesy call on Tuesday, where they discussed areas of cooperation in fighting the trafficking of narcotics. The delegation was led by Home Office International Operations Director Nick Fowler.
Fowler was accompanied by his assistant Richard Lloyd, the Regional Manager Tara Moore, Country Manager Matt Jenkins and Rani Matharu. Drug trafficking has been a threat in the region.
Fowler expressed concern that the narcotics underworld remained a threat to global peace, citing cocaine and heroin as the most trafficked globally. In that regard, he called upon all concerned agencies to share intelligence and endeavour to break the supply chain at the points of origin.
To boost the DCI’s Anti-Narcotics Unit’s capacity to detect peddlers, the guests donated two portable X-ray scanners, for use in mobile operations on such places as houses and offices, vehicle cabins and compartments, suitcases, walls and underneath carpets to detect concealed drugs.
Thanking the British High Commission for being a reliable partner in security matters, Amin assured the delegation that the Directorate was flexing its muscles on the traffickers, with the previously acquired body scanners coming in handy in detecting peddlers at the ports.
Amin further expressed optimism in the multi-agency approach that the Kenyan security teams have adopted, saying that basic investigation training on all the players would further boost the country’s capacity to suppress offenders.
Heroin is one of the most trafficked and consumed narcotics at the Coast. Another mostly trafficked and abused drug is cocaine. Alcohol, miraa, prescription drugs, tobacco, marijuana and inhalants are also widely consumed.
Police said traffickers now use roads as opposed to airports to carry out their business. The most commonly trafficked narcotics from Tanzania and Uganda is heroin.
In 2019, the European Union Ambassador to Kenya Simon Mordue said the Port of Mombasa accounted for 30 per cent of illegal heroin smuggled into the EU market. Most of the heroin in the country originates from Afghanistan through the Indian Ocean.
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