Police team keeping up controls together with customs and French counterpart

October 2, 2022 9:52 am

During the last week, the police special operation team has been extremely active in carrying out several assigned missions, inquiries and controls

Together with Customs and the French police officers coordinated a control on different borders of the island.

In the course of the controls carried out, a total of 188 cars and 11 motorcycles were stopped and checked while 3 of these motorcycles were taken into safe keeping for failing the technical requirements. 144 cars were stopped and controlled for driving with dark windows.

At several retail outlets across the island individuals hanging around were stopped and controlled in connection with narcotics and firearms possession. As a result, 440 grams of marijuana, 22 grams of Hashish and 22 grams of cocaine were located and confiscated.

The team addressed 18 individuals about their behavior, 15 students approached and spoken to within the school zone and one individual was arrested.

On Friday evening, September 30, 2022 between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m., a traffic control was held together with the customs and French police along several borders.

On Friday evening, September 30, 2022 between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m., a traffic control was held together with the customs and French police along several borders. Throughout this action, a total of 102 were checked, 88 vehicles of which because they had dark windows, and 28 grams of narcotics were confiscated.