2 Under the direction and supervision of the Minister of Welfare, Narcotic Agents shall take charge of entering, inspecting and removing as authorized by this Law as well as the Taima Control Law (Law No.124 of 1948) and other matters concerning the enforcement of these Laws, and he authorized, as judicial police officers prescribed in the Code of Criminal Procedure, to perform their duties in respect to the offences concerning narcotic or taima and also the offences prescribed in Chapter 14 of the Penal Code (Law No.45 of 1907).