Magdeburg (dpa/sa) - To combat drugs in prisons, drug scanners are also to be used in Saxony-Anhalt, as in some other federal states. When exactly is not known. The procurement is currently being prepared, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice on Saturday. An exact date cannot yet be given.
The scanners are to be used, among other things, to improve the detection of so-called new psychoactive substances. It's about synthetic cannabinoids that are smuggled to prisoners in prisons. According to legal experts, they are sometimes dripped onto paper and sent to the prisons with letters and children's pictures and cannot be seen or smelled. With the detector, the substances could be tracked down and continuously updated in a database.
