The General Direcotrate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) targets protective enlightenment, narcotics control inside and outside the Kingdom and takes care of the addicts in cooperation with National Committee for Narcotics Control (NCNC). The GDNC has a network of offices all over the Kingdom and abroad.
The following are some of the duties of GDNC:
- Make plans to apprehend narcotics smugglers and dealers, and discover modes and styles of smuggling.
- Define plans and monitor statutory procedures to control narcotics.
- Perform researches to develop field and administrative work related to narcotics control, prepare statistics, analyze them and evaluate the work periodically.
- Monitor Narcotics Control Directorate, Divisions, Departments and Units around the Kingdom and provide them with the necessary guidance.
- Coordinate with Narcotics Control Administrations abroad and define cooperation methods with them.
- Coordinate with the government organizations in the Kingdom to enlighten public on the dangers of narcotics by preparing awareness plans through media.
- Train the GDNC's staff inside the kingdom and abroad, to improve their performance.
- Foil smuggling operations, track gangs internally and externally and control the legitimate trade of hazardous materials (Medical & Scientific purposes) and prevent illicit trade of such materials at markets, in collaboration with Ministry of Health; and focus on Kingdom's outlets (land, sea and air).
- Deploy honest detectives to detect methods of smuggling at outlets and perform campaigns focused on highways and suspicious places.
- Monitor roads, highways and suspected places.
- Enlighten public on the dangers of addiction using available media.
- Help treat prisoners addicted to narcotics and admit them to one of Al-Amal Hospitals.
- Provide after-treatment care for prisoners addicted to narcotics, and rehabilitate them.
- Co-operate with the NCNC to take care of the treated addicts.
- Co-operate with the NCNC to issue "Al-Mukafahah" a quarterly magazine focusing on drug dangers.