The Melaka Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department has disposed of RM18.53 million worth of drug-related case exhibits involving nearly 2,000 investigation papers dating back to 2007.

MELAKA: The Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) of the Melaka Police Contingent has disposed of drug-related case exhibits worth RM18.53 million, involving 1,963 investigation papers dating from 2007 to this year.

Melaka Police Chief Datuk Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said syabu (crystal methamphetamine) accounted for the largest quantity of exhibits, totalling 357 kilogrammes (kg) and valued at RM16 million.

“This first disposal exercise of the year also involved various other types of drugs and prohibited substances under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and the Poisons Act 1952,” he told a press conference at the Melaka Contingent Police Headquarters here today.