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825 of 25,563 students tested positive for drugs in first quarter

The first quarter of this year saw 825 of the 23,583 secondary school students screened for drugs testing positive, Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed said.

He said some of them were even drug pushers.

"We are going after them. The National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) has been given the task to weed out the drug problem in schools," Nur Jazlan told reporters after presenting AADK's excellence awards for 2016 in Kajang yesterday.

Nur Jazlan, who is also president of Pemadam, an association to tackle the drug problem in the country, said concerted action was needed from all parties to rid the country of the drug scourge.

In Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Aman Commercial Crimes Investigation Department director Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said police arrested 31 individuals, 27 men and four women, who were believed to be members of a loan sharking syndicate, in several states yesterday.

He said the suspects, aged between 23 and 40 years, were picked up in simultaneous raids in Selangor, Johor, Penang , Kedah, Malacca and Negri Sembilan.

"All were Malaysians and most of them were debt collectors," Acryl Sani said in a statement.

In Kota Baru, the deputy police chief of Kota Baru, Supt Setapa Yusuf, said police were closing in on a man suspected to have broken into the Kelantan Menteri Besar's Office and state Treasury office at Kompleks Kota Darul Naim yesterday

He said the the suspect was identified via CCTV recordings.

"The suspect is believed to have fled with cash amounting to RM1,500 and two emerald rings worth RM1,000 belong to a worker there," Setapa told reporters.

He added that the suspect had 13 previous cases, since 2000, for breaking and entering and carjacking.

- Bernama

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