LEGAL ANALYSIS OF ERADICATING NARCOTICS CRIME IN A CRIMINOLOGY PERSPECTIVE IN LABUHAN BATU REGENCY

One of the behaviors that is a very dangerous social symptom in community is criminal act of narcotics. This narcotics crime is regulated in the Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 35 of 2009. This narcotics crime in North Sumatra is increasing every year, especially in in Labuhan Batu Regency from 2013 to 2018. This research aim to explain the application of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 35 of 2009, and to overcome the constraints it is necessary to have a comprehensive system improvement how the police of Labuhan Batu Regency conducted legal counseling and positive activities in the community. However, the obstacles that occur in eradicating narcotics crimes in a criminology perspective, among others, are the limited police personnel, the breadth of work area, and the difficulty of support from the community. Moreover, the Labuhan Batu Regency area is so vast that it takes a large amount of money so that eradication is carried out completely to the source. In the meantime, the policy that has been implemented, among others, is that if the perpetrators are children, then their cases are handed back to their parents, and if their parents are gone then they are handed over to the rehabilitation center. Likewise with narcotics addicts, the perpetrators were handed over to rehabilitation institutions, but dealers in the drug case were processed to court