The City Hall of the Capital completed the purchase of 100 anti-drug testing devices, which will be provided to the Romanian Police. The devices will identify a minimum of eight substances, and the sample analysis time will be a maximum of 10 minutes.
100 anti-drug devices enter the equipment of the Bucharest police Photo: Stelian Bujduveanu/Facebook
The General Council of the Capital approved in September 2023 the allocation of 2,000,000 lei for the purchase of 100 anti-drug testing devices, to be given free of charge to the General Police Directorate of the Municipality of Bucharest. In June 2024, the City Hall of the Capital launched an auction on SEAP in order to purchase the 100 anti-drug testing devices.
“My project and that of my PNL colleagues is coming to life! The City Hall of the Capital completed the purchase of 100 anti-drug testing devices, which will be provided to the Romanian Police. State-of-the-art technology: The devices have a functional system in stationary mode, in the field, they will identify at least 8 substances, and the sample analysis time will be a maximum of 10 minutes. For a safer Bucharest: The data will be stored precisely (day, time, substance detected and the name of the person tested), and the police teams will use them in the fight against drug consumption and trafficking”wrote Stelian Bujduveanu, the former vice mayor of the Capital, on Facebook on Tuesday.
The project initiated by Stelian Bujduveanu foresees the involvement of the municipality of Bucharest in the local action to combat drug consumption and trafficking through the purchase of devices for determining the presence of narcotic substances in saliva.
According to the approval report, at the level of the Capital it is found “an alarming increase in the consumption and trafficking of drugs, especially among minors, facts found in the reports of the General Directorate of Police of the Municipality of Bucharest“.
The municipality does not have specialized structures in combating the consumption and trafficking of narcotic substances, but “can contribute significantly with resources to provide the specialized structures within the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the means to fight against this phenomenon that seriously damages” public health and the safety of the city’s inhabitants, the document emphasized, according to Agerpres.
