Factors affecting Customs in managing narcotics smuggling in Southern Region
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Date
2018
Authors
Ndururi, Gladys Wambui
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KESRA/JKUAT - Unpublished research project
Abstract
Kenya’s transformation into a trafficking hub has been increasing in the past 10 years. Drugs are smuggled into Kenya through shoreline and porous borders with Somalia and Tanzania. In Kenya there are spirited efforts of inter-organizational agencies to manage narcotics smuggling. This study comprises three objectives. The first objective is to analyze the effect of customs internal process in managing narcotics smuggling in southern region. The second objective is to examine the effect of inter-organizational coordination in managing narcotics smuggling in southern region. The third objective is to analyze the effects of adaptation strategies of Customs in managing narcotics smuggling in the southern region. A descriptive design was used for the study, using cluster sampling technique to obtain sample size of 171 respondents from target population of 300 respondents, where the respondents sampled across all clusters were customs officers, airport and port police, KAA officers, KPA officers, anti-narcotics and NACADA officers in southern region. A structured questionnaire was used to collect information from the respondents and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 23 was used to analyze the collected data. The linear regression model was used to describe the relationship between the independent variables to the dependent variable. The study findings indicated that the independent variables explain 66.1% of the dependent variable. Customs internal process was found to be affecting the managing of narcotics smuggling by 26.3%, Inter-organization Coordination having 33.7% while Adaptation strategies of Customs 29.3%. the Regression analysis results are supported by the Correlation analysis which shown a strong relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable for the variables Customs internal process, Inter-organization Coordination and Adaptation strategies of Customs having coefficient of correlation r of 0.644, 0.680 and 0.647 respectively. The researcher therefore recommends frequent training of customs officer on detection and prevention techniques so that they can efficiently and effectively fight narcotics smuggling. This study therefore recommends constant evaluation on countries that have been able to fight narcotics smuggling so as to improve performance in managing of narcotics and proper coordination between organizations nationally and internationally by sharing intelligence and use of informants.
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PROJ 354.2 NDU
Keywords
Drug trafficking, Risk management, Coordinated border management, Physical inspection, Smuggling, Seizure, Customs internal process