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Our country has been recognized as a nation that is relatively less serious in the drug abuse compared to other countries such as America and Japan. Just in the early 20th century, the drug abuse was nothing but a problem that is restricted to a small minority of the whole population.
However, due to a rise in the drug abuse and the smuggling deal such as having been exceeded 10,000 regulation personnel of drug-concerned criminals from 1999 to 2002, it is being emerged now as a serious social issue.
Especially, according to the trend of the rapid opening and internationalization since 2000, the human & material exchange with foreign countries was expanded. In the meantime, from the 2000s, the new drugs were smuggled to a country, such as YABA and ecstasy, which are widely
used in the advanced countries like Europe and America, starting from Philopon, which had been used traditionally, thereby being broadly used in foreign students, foreigners, and university towns. Also, an international drug organization, which uses Korea as a middle route for the smuggling export of drugs, started to increase recently. Thus, drug criminals by way of Korea
is growing.
Number of drug criminals, whom were caught for one year in 2008, dropped by about 7.1% year-on-year with 9,898 people. This is the numerical value that was limited merely to the number of the controlled criminals. Given trying to estimate the actually potential users, it is an
established theory to see from 10 times to as much as 20 times. Given trying to analyze cases of being used recently, it is a situation that even the number of new drug criminals is gradually increasing such as YABA, ecstasy and benzylpiperazine from drugs such as the existing Philopon and marihuana.
This study examined about a concept and characteristics in drug crimes and about the current regulation & legislation of drugs, and examined about tendency of domestically drug crimes and about a system of investigation into drug crimes. Based on this, the control of the police against drug crimes were proposed such as, first, the substantiation of educational training for the police, second, the reinforcement in preventive function of the police, third, the strengthening in the investigation system of the police, and fourth, the implementation of a cooperative system with residents through the community policing.