Study the Impact of Drug Smuggling on Societal Security Case Study: Kerman Province

The most fundamental concept of social life is security and societal security is the most important aspect of security. One factor that has a negative impact on societal security is drug smuggling in the community. This study sought to examine the impact of drug smuggling on societal security in Kerman province, which performed by descriptive and spatial analysis methods. The required data collected by library method. They gathered from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Statistics Center of Iran and Kerman Province’s Applied Research Office of police commander. Societal insecurity indicators such as the rate of armed robbery, robbery rape, kidnapping and murder with the amount of drugs seized and drug smuggling territory between 2007-2011 according to Kerman province is studied. It is used to analyze data from SPSS software for computing coefficient Of correlation of research variables and Arc GIS software for computing and spatial analysis by method of Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation and without weighted linear Combination (WLC). The results show that the townships of eastern half of Kerman province that are the areas under the influence of drug smuggling to smuggle drugs into the province and the country are more untoward than townships of the western half of the state societal security. This means that areas of drug smuggling have more societal insecurity and security crimes than other areas.