Police raid capital’s drug-blighted village
Officials at an annual anti-drug police conference in the capital on 2 February called on authorities to renew their efforts to eradicate drugs in the blighted Phnom Penh village of Trapaing Chhouk, and this time, they said, make it work.
As if on cue, a contingent of about 20 anti-drug police forces swept into the village on 3 February evening, scattering drug dealers and conducting spot-checks on passing civilians. But years of near-daily raids and hundreds of arrests have done little to budge the meth trade in Trapaing Chhouk.
