Police Ordered to Burn Suspected Drug Plane

The police are still on the hunt for suspects involved in the landing of a suspected drug plane in the Cayo District. They haven’t yet recovered the plane’s contents. To prevent any further illegal activities, the police decided to burn the plane after they found it. Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, shared more details about why they made that call.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“We have searched the entire area, including using drones, and we have not been able to do the Sibun River is not too far away from the area where the plane landed, so we believe that if there was any cargo on board the aircraft, it may have left the area via the Sibun River.”

 

Reporter

“Is there plans to upgrade the radar?”

 

Chester Williams

“That’s a matter that we’re looking at. JIAC would be in a better position to explain why they were unable to provide to us any tracking on that particular night in question, as you would know, we’re not the ones who work or manages JIAC.  We would normally be fed with information coming out of JIAC as released to the illicit tracking. And then once we get those informations, then we would then activate our operational teams. to go into different areas that we would  anticipate the plane may likely land. But in this case, that did not occur.”

 

Britney Gordon

“How was this plane disposed of? Because we came to an understanding that it was burnt. Why was this the case?”

 

Chester Williams

“Yes that’s a directive that the plane be destroyed. Again it’s the trend that we do now.  Instead of putting these planes out for action and sold to the highest bidder, It’s a policy now that we destroy them so as not to have these planes reused. We have seen instances before where the planes were actioned off and then next thing we know the planes end up right back in business again with another set of cargo. So to eliminate that from happening, these aircraft are not destroyed on spot.”

 

Reporter

“Is this the first plane to have landed suspected drug planes Corozon Creek last December?”

 

Chester Williams

“Yes.”

 

Reporter

“And that is because the radar usually picks it up and police toward it, right?”

 

Chester Williams

“Yes. Okay.”

 

Reporter

“Do you know how much time elapsed between the landing of the plane, approximately, to when the police got the information?”

 

Chester Williams

“From our best information, the plane may have landed sometime after midnight. Based on our discussion with people in the area having heard the plane around that time. And we got the information around nine in the morning. That’s ten hours, basically. Alright. Nine to 10 hours by the time the cargo could be far gone.”