Archive · 15 Sep 2026
Gujarat Police Plan 41 Anti-Narcotics Units and AI-Assisted Investigations
Gujarat Police plans to create 41 special teams to fight illegal drugs.
At least one team will operate in each district, with extra teams in some large cities and Kutch.
These teams will work with a larger Anti-Narcotics Task Force.
They will investigate drug cases and send regular updates to the task force.
Each team will have eight officers, but the police will not hire new people for these positions.
The plan follows several large drug seizures in Gujarat.
Police also want to improve how officers collect and protect evidence.
A computer tool called NARIT-AI may help officers understand drug laws and investigate cases.
Gujarat Police will establish 41 Anti-Narcotics Wings across districts and commissionerates.
The wings will support the Anti-Narcotics Task Force and report regularly to it.
Each wing will have eight officers, without additional hiring, and focus exclusively on drug cases.
Police recorded more than 3,700 NDPS cases and seized over 1.36 lakh kilograms of drugs in five years.
The force is expected to use the NARIT-AI tool to help investigate complex narcotics cases.
- Who
- Gujarat Police, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force, and local police units.
- What
- The police plan to establish 41 Anti-Narcotics Wings and improve narcotics investigations, including through the NARIT-AI tool.
- When
- The Anti-Narcotics Task Force was announced in August 2025; the order creating the wings was issued on September 5, with units to be established within a week.
- Where
- Across Gujarat, including its 34 districts and the Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, and Vadodara commissionerates.
- Why
- To strengthen action against the sale, trafficking, production, and investigation of banned drugs.
- Planned units
- 41 Anti-Narcotics Wings
- Coverage
- At least one wing in each of Gujarat’s 34 districts, with two each in Kutch, Ahmedabad, and Surat
- Unit staffing
- Eight officers per wing, including an Inspector and a Sub-inspector
- Task force strength
- The Anti-Narcotics Task Force was expanded from 34 to 211 personnel
- Recent seizures
- More than 1.36 lakh kilograms of drugs worth about Rs 13,600 crore were seized over five years
- Registered cases
- More than 3,700 cases were registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act over five years
- Investigation technology
- NARIT-AI has been used in field trials involving more than 60 cases in Gujarat