Drug Trafficking In Malaysia Statistics 2020
Of the 141 women on death row in malaysia as of february 2019 95 were sentenced for trafficking drugs compared to 70 of men found amnesty.
Drug trafficking in malaysia statistics 2020. A key to this has been the introduction of an official moratorium on all executions and the introduction of a discretionary death penalty for drug trafficking offences in a number of limited circumstances. It ravishes communities endangers businesses strains government institutions and drags down the wider economy. Drug overdoses deaths drug use among youth marijuana use addiction opioid epidemic drug war cost marijuana incarceration. Crime index ratio per 100 000 population for malaysia in 2017 improved to 309 7 as against 2016.
Recently when the law was extended to include acts of terrorism any terrorists and anyone who aids terrorists financially or otherwise is liable to face the death penalty. Malaysia has made it loud and clear on its non compromising stance in combating illicit drug trafficking and doing all it can to disrupt the drug supply chain. Drug trafficking is one of the empact priorities europol s priority crime areas under the 2018 2021 eu policy cycle. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in malaysia it is a mandatory punishment for murder drug trafficking treason and waging war against yang di pertuan agong the king.
Drug trafficking is big business bringing in a fifth of all profits from organised crime. Among the conditions imposed to get the jail term is that the convicted person should have assisted an enforcement agency in disrupting drug trafficking activities within or outside malaysia. Cops bust drug trafficking syndicate in langkawi friday 23 oct 2020 03 48 pm myt kedah police chief datuk hasanuddin hassan said in the operation from 1pm to 4pm police also discovered four locations where drugs were hidden by the suspects. Johor police cripple drug trafficking syndicate with arrest of six men seizure of drugs worth rm11 4m wednesday 07 oct 2020 08 55 pm myt police have crippled a drug trafficking syndicate following the arrest of six local men and the seizure of various drugs worth rm11 4 million in four raids around kota damansara on monday.
In 2o18 31 9 million or 11 7 of the population over age 12 in the us were current illegal drug users had used within the previous month in 2018 53 million or 19 4 of people aged 12 years and older used illegal drugs or. The government then amended the law in 2017 to give courts the option of imposing either penalty albeit subject to certain conditions set out by the public prosecutor. Crime index ratio per 100 000 population. General drug use statistics.
Crime statistics malaysia 2018 is the first publication of the department which presents statistics on five crime areas namely crimes index drugs corruptions environments and other crimes. These pages give insights into the threat posed by drugs and drug.