The drug trade here cannot be crippled unless the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has the backing of the judiciary and the police and there is international cooperation, according to Regional Director Matthew Donahue who today expressed confidence in a successful tenure in Guyana.
“It doesn’t do us much good to arrest a guy with heroin or cocaine or crack on the street if we can’t bring that back to the entire organisation and use the judicial system here and the judicial support that police enjoy here to bring the entire organisation down”, he said during an opening ceremony for the long-awaited DEA Guyana office. The office is located at the US embassy.
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