Dec 22 - Joint RGP-Guardia Civil Operation Results In Huge Drugs Seizure
In yet another example of close co-operation between RGP and Spanish Guardia Civil marine assets, yesterday morning saw the seizure by the RGP of 33 bales of Cannabis Resin off Gibraltar’s eastern coastline following a joint RGP / Guardia Civil chase the previous night.
Shortly after 10pm on Saturday 20th December 2014, RGP Marine Section responded to information from the Guardia Civil of a suspect vessel within British Territorial Waters. Upon approaching the area, the RGP vessel, supported by the Guardia Civil, immediately became engaged in the chase of a vessel seen to be carrying an unknown number of suspected Cannabis bales.
During the chase the occupants of the suspect vessel were seen to dispose of a number of bales on the eastern side of Gibraltar’s coastline. The chase lasted approximately forty minutes before the suspect vessel left British Gibraltar Territorial Waters and headed east into the straits.
During the early hours of yesterday Sunday 21st December 2014, the RGP recovered a total of 33 bales of Cannabis resin from different areas of Gibraltar’s eastern coastline, one of these bales having been handed over to Police by a local fisherman. The drugs, weighing a total of approximately 1100Kg, have a total street value of approximately four and a half million pounds.
