Southwest Sumba Police Thwarts Drug Smuggling Without Documents

Police officers from the Southwest Sumba Police of the East Nusa Tenggara Police inspected cargo items on fishing boats entering through Waikelo Port, Southwest Sumba Regency. (ANTARA/HO-Humas Polres Southwest Sumba)

WEST SUMBA - Police officers from the Southwest Sumba Police of East Nusa Tenggara Province thwarted an attempt to smuggle drugs without documents transported by sea using fishing boats from Bima, West Nusa Tenggara Province. Southwest Sumba Police Chief AKBP Sigit Harimbawan explained that the shipment of unlicensed drugs to Southwest Sumba Regency was successfully thwarted by the police while carrying out a concentrated operation at Waikelo Port. The police carried out monitoring of loading and unloading activities, including checking fishing boats carrying fish and vegetables from Sape Port, West Nusa Tenggara Province. At that time, said Sigit, police officers found eight boxes of medicines that were not equipped with documents brought from Bima, West Nusa Tenggara Province. The drugs that want to be smuggled into the Southwest Sumba Regency area consist of 500mg four boxes of amoxicilin, 500mg two boxes of Ampicilin, 0.75mg two boxes of Dexametasone. The drugs without a permit were smuggled by the suspect with the initials M through a fishing boat and will be sold to the public illegally without a doctor's prescription. According to the Police Chief, the police have confiscated eight boxes of drugs without permission from suspect M as evidence for legal processing in order to provide a personal effect for other criminals not to do the same.

"We will continue to check every ship that enters and leaves the Waielo Port, Southwest Sumba Regency, also checking every loading and unloading of goods, both goods that get off and get on the ship to minimize things like what has happened, because illegal drug sales without a doctor's prescription can endanger public health," he said, quoted from Antara, Monday, September 25.