JOHOR BAHRU, Oct 8 (Bernama) -- Johor police today disposed of an estimated RM43.54 million worth of case items, involving various types of drugs and processing equipment.
Johor police chief CP Datuk Ab Rahaman Arsad said the disposal involved compact drugs weighing 651 kilogrammes (kg) and 12,243.02 litres of liquid drugs.
"In total, the disposal of these case items involved 4,528 investigation papers from 2000 to 2024,” he told a media conference at the Johor Police Headquarters here today.
He said that among the drugs disposed of were heroin (57.81kg), cannabis (17.10kg), ketamine (94.39kg), methamphetamine (49.65kg), methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) (105.64kg), nimetazepam (1.59kg), ketum leaves (325.38kg), yaba bills (193.14 grammes) and vape liquid (456.10 grammes).
He added that the amount of drugs disposed of could feed the addiction of nearly 1.39 million addicts.
The disposal, he added, would be carried out by a scheduled waste management company at the Telok Panglima Garang disposal site in Selangor.
"It is learnt that this company uses the latest facility, namely the incinerator or the 'scheduled waste to energy’ method, which produces new energy and is more coordinated and pollution-free,” he said.
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