Four municipalities in Kosovo where minors mostly use narcotics

Ismet Koca, Lieutenant in the Kosovo Police, has stated that access to narcotics is disturbing at the level of the country.

He said Pristina, Prizren, Peja and Mitrovica are municipalities where there are mostly minors who abuse narcotics.

I can generally say that our narcotics approach is disturbing at the level of the country, given the large number of population in large centres. Mostly, I can check after Pristina, since it's top centre, and some of the centers, as it is: Prizren, Peja or Mitrovica. These are probably some of the centers that are more frequented by people who abuse narcotics”, he said.

Lieutenant Koca added that according to statistics, there are cases when minors have consumed narcotics substances even in school objects.

From 2018 we have a total of 81 cases that happened. A number of them within school objects, some in courtyards or school areas, even occasions that have occurred outside the school perimeter. So. If we talk about this year, we have 81 cases. As of 2019, we have a total of 47 cases that have occurred, of them seven cases that occurred within the school facility, then 28 cases in the vicinity of schools d.m. around, in the yard or other school proximitys, and 12 cases that occurred outside the school yard at 350m perimeter in the school district. By 2020 we have a report of 21 cases”.

Of those two cases are in the school facility inside, then we have 12 cases in school spaces, seven cases with a 350-foot perimeter outside the school. In 2021 we have a total of 20 reported or occurred cases. Of them 7 are in school objects, 10 of them in space and 3 out of school with 350 meters of perimeter. And in 2022, up to this time we are now, we have a total of 13 cases reported, two of them are inside school objects, while 7 cases are in school yards or objects and four cases on the outskirts of schools, namely. Coca said. / Justice Trust/