Police aware of cocaine ‘glut’
PA Wellington New Zealand police are aware of a glut of cocaine on the world market and surveillance has been stepped up, the nation’s drug enforcement agency says.
Detective Superintendent Richard MacDonald, director of the Drug Enforcement and Intelligence Bureau at police headquarters, said that his unit had been aware of the cocaine trafficking problem for some time and was watching the situation very closely.
Australian Government sources were reported this week as saying Pacific Island countries had been warned by the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs that they were likely to be used as transit points for the movement of cocaine across the Pacific. Australian Federal police are considering stationing an officer in Hawaii to monitor the problem.
Mr MacDonald said New Zealand had been given no special warning of an upsurge in trafficking but . continually received reports from overseas drug enforcement agencies and was kept very well briefed. However, he said surveillance of ports and airports had been increased by the Customs Department in the light of the drug glut. Seizings of cocaine in New Zealand so far had been small, with less than a kilogram found last year, Mr MacDonald said.
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