The Effectiveness of Law Enforcement Against Narcotics Crimes in Order to Suppress the Illicit Trafficking of Narcotics

This study aims to determine and analyze the effectiveness of law enforcement against narcotics crimes in order to suppress the illicit trafficking of narcotics in the jurisdiction of the Semarang Police, and to analyze the obstacles in law enforcement against narcotics crimes in order to suppress the illicit trafficking of narcotics in the jurisdiction of the Semarang Police. The approach method used is sociological juridical, descriptive analytical research specifications, types and sources of data using primary and secondary data, data collection methods are field studies and literature studies, while the data analysis method uses qualitative analysis. The results of the study indicate that law enforcement against narcotics crimes in order to suppress the illicit trafficking of narcotics in the jurisdiction of the Semarang Police Station has not been effective, which is indicated by an increase in cases and the number of suspects. Obstacles in law enforcement against narcotics crimes in order to suppress the illicit circulation of narcotics in the jurisdiction of the Semarang Police, namely the limited operational personnel that is not proportional to the area of Semarang Regency, the existence of a network break method in the illicit trafficking of narcotics, the perpetrators protect each other when one of the network members caught, the narcotics evidence is destroyed by the suspect. The solution to overcome this is to approach the arrested suspect, do a urine/blood test, the suspect is declared negative, while evidence is not found, then the suspect will be released, but further investigation will be carried out in a closed manner. The obstacles resulted in the ineffectiveness of law enforcement against narcotics crimes in suppressing narcotics circulation in the jurisdiction of the Semarang Police.Keywords: Effectiveness, law enforcement, narcotics illicit traffi