Tripoli- Head of the National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Dabaiba attended, Sunday, in Tripoli, the graduation ceremony of the eighth batch of employees of the Drug Control and Psychotropic Substances Service at the Ministry of Interior.
In a speech at the celebration, the Prime Minister said that drug use and trafficking have social, economic, health and political consequences, and our role requires that we all be active in combating this epidemic in all ways. Dabaiba added, “We are determined to graduate one batch after another to dismantle these criminal gangs in order to preserve the country’s capabilities, stressing the government’s support for the Ministry of Interior, drug control centers and other security agencies to combat these destructive phenomena in society and cut the road for all drug dealers so that security and stability prevail throughout the country.”
In his speech, the Prime Minister called for the necessity of paying attention to the youth segment and guiding them towards the better, as they are the mainstay and future of the country. The graduation ceremony, which was held at the Police Training Institute in Ain Zara affiliated with the Ministry of Interior, was attended by Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Public Affairs Major General Mahmoud Saeed, Deputy Head of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Control Agency, Ibrahim Al-Zatrini, Deputy Director of the Central Support Administration Branch in Tripoli, Lieutenant-Colonel Mahmoud Al-Qambri, and the official spokesman for the Ministry of Interior. The Ministry of Interior, Abdel Moneim Al-Arabi, the Mayor of Ain Zara Municipality visited him, a number of officers and non-commissioned officers from the Ministry of Interior and the Agency, and parents of graduates. The ceremony began with a parade of graduates’ cadres, self-defense demonstrations, a security stopping of a suspected drug-carrying vehicle, a display of the Ministry of Interior’s motorcycles, a display of the mechanisms of the Drug Enforcement and Psychotropic Substances Administration, and a special task force. The graduates of the eighth batch of the employees of the Anti-Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Agency, who numbered (500), led the law department.
Source: Libyan News Agency
