New initiative in Europe to combat drug importation into Ireland

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New initiative in Europe to combat drug importation into Ireland
By Naoise O’ DOnovan Coogan
Kilkenny MEP, Liam Aylward has today said that a new initiative in Europe which is coming on stream in March this year will help to combat drug importation into Ireland and into Europe.
Every county in Ireland including Kilkenny has featured in news reports of drug seizures made by Gardai in recent times.
Drug hauls have become an everyday occurance in Kilkenny, Carlow, Waterford and several other counties in the south-east region. Kilkenny’s drug problem has been up for discussion in local authority meetings on several occasions in recent times and councillors have expressed their concern about the number of young people who appear to be involved in the sale and possession of drugs in this area.
A number of countries including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and Ireland will be participating in the new European initiative which, it is hoped will help to combat the drugs problem in the country. The navy services, the customs authorities, and the police networks from the respective countries will be joining forces in a unified structure to combat drug importations into ports along the Western coast of Europe.
Mr Aylward says, "the primary target will be to intercept the trafficking of cocaine from South America ( and via West Africa ) into ports along the Western sea board of Europe, including into Ireland. Irish officials will be co-ordinating spying operations on various suspected ships as part of these international drug trafficking efforts. Information will be co-ordinated via the new headquarters for this MAOC programme which will be based in Lisbon in Portugal. Irish authorities will be able to inspect and intercept suspected ships in Irish waters.
He said, “I believe that this new and important initiative will help to reduce international drug trafficking and that it will help to reduce the supply of drugs such as cocaine into Europe. We must remember that only 15 per cent of all drugs destined for Europe are presently intercepted by EU police authorities. This figure is simply too low.”
We must also recall, for example, that in the year 2005 five tonnes of cocaine worth €350 million was intercepted in the Canaries. This drugs haul was heading straight for Ireland. Combating such international drug hauls will be the sort of work that the Marine Analysis Operations Programme will be carrying out in the coming months, " he concluded.

***When will they learn you can't stop it, you haven't in 100 years and you won't do it in the next 100 years. Let the government control it an take out the criminal element. Spend money of finding that silver bullet that will cure addtion with minimal withdrawl pains instead in interceptoin which the police admit is absmal failure with 85% shipped in go to end-users. Treat the demand, a lot of addicts want off these drugs but the medical community has not come up with that silver bullet. There should be a Manhatten project on finding this solution, it is medical problem and we need to find a cure.

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Haha. swim is sure this will fail. Swim can imagine some fat garda sitting in his car watching some random empty beach in west kerry cursing the guy who tipped him off while two miles up the coast the kilo's and tonne's are rolling on in on .....