What happens to all the drugs that the cops bust throughout the year? Well, after documentation and storage, they eventually go up in smoke. And today, it was 150 kilos of cannabis and up to 15 kilos of cocaine and other drugs that were destroyed in Orange Walk. Our colleagues at CTV3 were there and spoke to Superintendent Chris Noble about this destruction.
Sr. Spt. Chris Noble, Commander of Administrations, Eastern Division
"Well today what we're doing is drug destruction. That is found properties, concluded cases. We know that for a number of years Orange Walk hadn't seen one. We've been working at it for a while now and we've been successful in getting it sorted."
"What you can see is we have we had the presence of our chief magistrate which we are very grateful for and our local magistrate, the forensic analyst and a local J.P. so as to show where we're with clean hands to the people."
"So this is not an open operation, but it's an operation where we need to show where we are being open with what we're doing because in other areas when you keep an amount of drugs, it tends to have issues down the road."
"So it's an exercise that we started today here in Orange Walk. We should do Corozal in short order and we'll do our best to make it an annual event. I can't quantify in dollars but it would be a significant haul should you have it in one place."
"Luckily we don't exercise the same, so for the people that use, we don't have it, we won't have it and for the people that sell they don't have it."
