Thai drugs agencies expect a surge in drug supplies from the North
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Drug agencies are warning of a massive influx of methamphetamines into Thailand despite the recent hauls which have netted almost 4 million pills.
Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) officers seized 3.66 million speed pills, or ya ba, from Thursday to Sunday in separate raids in Bangkok and Samut Prakan.
The haul was the agency's biggest in recent operations. And it expects more to come.
"Now they're [drugs] back again," said NSB deputy commander Harnpol Nitwibul. "They are everywhere and the problem is unstoppable."
The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), another agency tasked with cracking down on illicit drugs, and army officials responsible for the North where many of the drugs enter the country echoed Pol Maj Gen Harnpol's views.
"What we've just seen is only the tip of the iceberg," said Permpong Chaovalit, deputy director-general of the ONCB's head office in Bangkok.
"Many more drugs, especially methamphetamines, are waiting to be trafficked through the North to Bangkok.
"The ya ba situation is getting worse. Now we are on the defensive."
A source at the ONCB's northern branch, based in Chiang Mai, said an influx of drugs across the border from Burma was expected to reach Thailand's northern provinces on Chinese New Year's day, Feb 14.
Bangkok is the main destination for most of the drugs.
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