The State Police and the Rapid Intervention Force (FNSH) in cooperation with several prosecutors have organized an anti-drug mega-operation in several cities.
It has been almost a year since the investigation was launched in several cities in the country.
Sources for ABC News have announced that the police are conducting drone checks in the areas where cannabis cultivation is suspected.
While the number of persons arrested so far has gone to 40 among them among is 1 police officer.
It is learned that the controls have started from the air with a drone for the detection of cannabis plots.
Police have already announced that a 55-year-old man has been arrested in Fier and a 48-year-old man has been declared wanted.
It is suspected that they were favored for the cultivation of cannabis by the forest ranger in the village of Darzeza, where the 48-year old was prosecuted for not escalating the crime.
Meanwhile in Kukes are arrested 19 people and was seized a Kalashnikov rifle.
Two police officers, citizen A. K., 49 years old and citizen R. C, 59 years old, have been arrested by the SHÇBA( Internal Affairs and Complaints Service) structures at the Kukës Local Police Directorate, for the criminal offense “Abuse of duty”.
DVP Kukës structures will intensify measures to guarantee public order and to prevent the criminal activity in Kukës Region, cooperating with all law enforcement institutions.
Also the Berat Police Services, following the uninterrupted control to prevent the cultivation of narcotic plants and thanks to the information received on the operational road by the citizens, have made it possible in the city of Kuçova to prevent and strike an attempt to cultivate narcotic plants.
The arrest of this citizen was made after during the control of his apartment who were found and seized as material evidence, some narcotic seedlings, seeds suspected as cannabis sativa and a small amount of suspected substance as cannabis sativa.
The materials have been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of First Instance in Berat, for the criminal offense “Production and sale of narcotics”./abcnews.al
