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Nightclubs to be closed for drugs09.07.2004
The Moscow anti-drug agency proposes to close nightclubs that interfere with the work of drug police
Moscow will close night clubs that hinder the fight against drug trafficking. The Moscow department of the Federal Drug Control Service recently came up with such a legislative initiative. According to the head of the department, Aleksey Chuvayev, along with clubs whose owners and management do not allow the distribution of drugs on their territory, in the capital "there are other clubs that actively hinder our work to stop the illegal distribution of drugs." The department, however, does not say how many such clubs there are, noting only that drugs are currently sold in more than 100 of the capital's night entertainment establishments. According to representatives of the department, the measure they propose will be effective because it will force the owners or managers of clubs, on whose will it depends whether drugs are sold in clubs or not, to restore order in their establishments. However, there is another opinion on this matter. The new Moscow law, if adopted, will most likely be nominal in nature, because the owners and administrations of large night clubs, due to the specifics of this business, even with a strong desire, are not able to completely stop the sale of drugs. In this situation, only the activation of the drug police themselves, who, according to experts, are not working productively enough, can help. For several years now, Moscow City Law No. 29 has been in effect in the capital, regulating the relationship between drug police and night clubs. “According to this law, an establishment where facts of drug distribution and use are recorded is fined for the first time, and if such facts are discovered again, then we have the right to send the materials to the court with a petition to liquidate the legal entity,” Maria Lutsenko, head of the information and public relations department of the Drug Control Department of Russia for the city of Moscow, told RBC daily. However, a number of clubs circumvent this law by simply not allowing drug control officers onto their premises. “We have now prepared and sent to the Moscow Government and the Moscow City Duma proposals to amend the current legislation regulating the activities of legal entities providing such services to the population. If the changes are adopted, then the responsibility for condoning the distribution of drugs will be toughened. It is difficult to say when the amendments will be adopted,” notes Maria Lutsenko. The department believes that the measure will be effective, because whether drugs are sold in establishments or not depends, by and large, only on the wishes of the club owners. "When asked whether the administration of a night club can really prevent the distribution of drugs in its establishment, we answer in the affirmative. In our opinion, everything depends on the policy that its owners pursue. After all, every club has its own security service, whose employees are at the entrance to the club and inside it, there is a surveillance room, where everything that happens there is broadcast from cameras installed in all the premises of the establishment. Therefore, the administration of the establishment simply cannot help but know or see that drugs are being sold in the club," says Maria Lutsenko. However, the No to Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Foundation doubts that the new law will be effective. “If an employee of the Federal Drug Control Service is not allowed into a club, this only shows that he has failed his task. It is simply absurd to base this on a legislative basis,” Sergei Polyatykin, head of medical programs at the No to Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Foundation, told RBC Daily. According to him, the emergence of a legislative initiative by the Moscow Department of the Federal Drug Control Service shows that the Moscow government is dissatisfied with the work of this department. “As far as I can remember, not a single nightclub has ever been closed because drugs were sold there. It seems to me that the new law will remain something nominal and will not affect the difficult situation with the distribution of drugs in clubs. At best, they will catch some small fry,” the expert notes. As for the desire or unwillingness of club owners to prevent the distribution of drugs in their establishments, here too everything is not so simple. “The distribution of drugs can really be stopped in closed elite clubs, the number of members of which is limited,” says Sergey Polyatykin. “As for large establishments designed for a mass flow of visitors, drug trafficking will still occur here – even despite the efforts of the club administration, which, as a rule, is not interested in drugs being sold in the establishment. After all, the main money is still made on the sale of alcohol, and if a person is high, then alcohol is no longer of interest to him. At the same time, drug trafficking often occurs at the level of ordinary employees of very large entertainment establishments, such as Park Avenue Disco, the entertainment complex Center on Tulskaya and the like. They employ a lot of temporary employees, the turnover of security guards, bartenders and other service personnel there is high, and it is these people, who do not particularly hold on to their jobs, who are often engaged in the sale of drugs to visitors.” RBC Daily was unable to obtain a comment on this topic from the clubs themselves. In this situation, the problem can be solved radically only through active intelligence work, which drug police officers either cannot or do not know how to do to the required extent. “The work of drug police officers today is primitive – they do not even know how to recruit normal informants. Therefore, the most they can do is block the entrances and exits of the establishment and search everyone inside. Although in reality everything should be different: employees of the service (which, by the way, is allocated budget funds for this) infiltrate the chain of suppliers and distributors – to the point that fictitious companies are created specifically for these purposes, after which the entire chain is neutralized, and not just small drug dealers in clubs,” says Sergei Polyatykin. rbcdaily.ru
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