Overview

• The ANTF is now fully staffed with ten new leadership roles and 56 personnel transferred from the Anti-Naxal Force, operating under the DG & IGP and ADGP Cyber Command.
• It has been allocated a recurring ₹2.77 crore annual budget to back rapid-response, intelligence-led anti-drug operations across Karnataka.
• The government has rebranded 43 CEN police stations as cyber crime units focused on IT Act cases, coordinating Dark Web investigations and digital forensics.
• Anti-drugs wings in schools and colleges have been launched alongside MAP-Drugs app training for district units charged with coordinating courier checks, seizures and consumer bookings.
• Officials are adopting the Belagavi model to book drug consumers in order to map supply networks and strengthen deterrence.