Investigation Challenges of Airmail Parcels Containing Drugs and Their Possible Solutions

Mátyás, Szabolcs and Sivadó, Máté and Csaba, Zágon (2024) Investigation Challenges of Airmail Parcels Containing Drugs and Their Possible Solutions. JOURNAL OF EASTERN EUROPEAN CRIMINAL LAW, 11 (1). pp. 49-66. ISSN 2360-4964

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Abstract

The study examines the role of postal items (letters and packages) in the drug trade in the Hungarian drug market. Every day, more than a hundred thousand of consignments arrive in Hungary from countries outside the European Union. Many of those contain drugs or raw materials necessary to produce drugs. Identifying non-compliant parcels and filtering them out from the stream is challenging work. It is because of the large quantities on the one hand and on the other, the multiple rules and regulations parcel delivery services and law enforcement agencies are dealing with. This study focuses on increasing the identification of shipments containing illicit drugs. The study aims to provide an additional explanation as to whether a change in the risk analysis method can increase the number of successful detections. After studying the route of Hungarian postal items and based on questionnaires filled out by people who have recently lived or still live in drug rehabilitation institutions, the authors want to formulate practical proposals for law enforcement agencies. The suggestions made in the study can be used in everyday practice not only by Hungarian but also by all European law enforcement agencies.

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