Two anti-narcotics officers injured in the line of duty

AMMAN — Two police officers from the Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) were injured on Saturday during a shoot-out with drug dealers in the southern part of the Kingdom.

One of the officers is in critical condition, while the other is in fair condition, according to a statement issued by the media office of the Public Security Department (PSD). 

The statement said officers from an AND team, who were on  duty to watch and collect information on a number of drug dealers in the Rashidiya area, in Maan Governorate, found themselves targets of gunshots that hit their vehicle, adding the policemen responded to the assault and the attackers fled the scene. 

The statement described the shooters as “very dangerous armed men” who are wanted for a number of drug trafficking cases. 

On Saturday, the PSD media office said the anti-narcotics agents have carried out a number of raids on drug traders across the Kingdom, adding an Arab national was arrested while attempting to smuggle 5,000 pills outside the Kingdom.

The suspect, who was arrested at a border crossing, tried to hide the pills by taping them around his body.  

The raids targeted dealers, smugglers and addicts in Amman, Balqa, Ramtha and Ajloun, the police statement said. 

The AND said it will go on with its campaigns against dealers “wherever they are”, calling on people not to hesitate in reporting any drug suspects “who are a threat to society and its security”.