Samoa partnership with Am Samoa will help combat drug trade

Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Police Commissioner Auapa'au Logoitino Filipo is confident that a new bilateral agreement forged with law enforcement in American Samoa will help identify how drugs are imported into Samoa.

Auapa'au confirmed that the ministry does not have any new leads in identifying the gateway of illicit drugs into the country.

The commissioner told Samoa Observer that he was confident that the bilateral partnership will assist each other in identifying where these illicit drugs originate from.

As the Chair of the Pacific Transnational Crime Network, Auapa'au said it has been identified that the drugs discovered by some of Pacific countries and territories are brought in from South America down to New Zealand and Australia.

He said offers for a kilo of meth is estimated at US$127,000

He said illicit drug trafficking continues to cause law enforcement problems.