Kerala Police Join Hands With Seven States To Fight Drug, Criminal Mafia

Form coordination centre to share info, crack down rackets with inter-state connections

- SHAN A S @T'Puram

THE Kerala Police have joined hands with seven other police units from southern states and Union territories to form a coordination centre to share information on drugs and fugitives, with an eye on cracking down drug and criminal rackets having inter-state connections.

The centre was set up three weeks ago during a meeting of senior officials of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep, highly placed sources said.

During the meeting, it was decided to pass on information and coordinate actions in drug cases that have inter-state ramifications.

The move is expected to help the police in curbing the supply of drugs to Kerala as it can now proactively get police from other states to crack down on drug rackets that are based in their areas of jurisdictions.