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9/12/99AAP:AUST.FED.POLICE TO BE ST



this is insane, speed drugs like these can be made in any
high school or college laboratory, its done all the time, everywhere...
sending cops to monitor burma is bad politics and bad police work and
stinks of bad diplomacy. try education first. speed destroys the brain
and the bones, breaks down teeth and calcium, and rots the brain. ds


> BURMA-AFP AUST FEDERAL POLICE TO BE STATIONED IN BURMA
> DATE:23:50 09-Dec-99
> 
> Aust Federal Police to be stationed in Burma Burma AFP
> 
> BANGKOK, Dec 9 AAP- Federal police will be based in Burma for the first
> time to gauge the threat of a future flood of amphetamines into
> Australia.
> 
> Australian Federal Police official Mick Keelty said approval to station
> a liaison officer in Rangoon from January for a six-month trial was
> expected this week.
> 
> "We've planned to expand a number of our overseas posts in strategic
> areas throughout the world, and the opportunity has arisen for us ... to
> trial the posting oa an officer in Rangooon," Mr Keelty, general
> manager, national operaitons, said.
> 
> He was attending a three-day conference in Bangkok of a regional meeting
> of a national drug law enforcement agencies in Asia and the Pacific.
> 
> Thailand has been a base for AFP officers, with responsibilities to
> cover Burma and the flow of narcotics, mostly heroin, to Australia from
> the notorious Golden Triangle region of Burma, Thailand and Laos.
> 
> But there has been an explosion of amphetamine-type drug production,
> with over 200 million tablets flooding into neighbouring Thailand.
> 
> Mr Keelty said the officer's role "will be to facilitate inquiries on
> behalf of Australian police agencies in Burma and to also identify
> opportunities to cooperate more closely with the law enforcement
> agencies in Burma".
> 
> Australia is planning to assist the RAngoon government in training,
> education and equipment to gain greater cooperation "to facilitate
> enquiries for amphetamine type substances and heroin that is coming out
> of that part of the world," he said.
> 
> Burmese officials said the Rangoon government was determined "to fight
> against the drug without or with any assistance from international
> assistance abroad".
> 
> "If we receive any international assistance we would be more successful
> in suppressing drug production and heroin production, "the official,
> speaking on behalf of Police Brigadier General Hla Tun, said from the
> central committee for drug abuse control. AAP rec/rds/br
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