Manque d’effectifs

Pour les syndicats de police, cet augmentation de la violence va de pair avec l’installation de nouveaux points de deal. « Malheureusement à Quimper, depuis plusieurs mois, on voit une augmentation de la violence. On voit l’apparition de points de deal », note Julien Le Cal, secrétaire régional du syndicat Alliance. Un constat qu’il met en perspective avec un manque criant de moyens et d’effectifs.

Trois effectifs pour les stups !

« Les collègues sur place ont des moyens dérisoires. La brigade des stupéfiants, à Quimper, ce sont trois effectifs », explique-t-il.

Après ces événements, des CRS ont été déployées le week-end dernier dans le quartier concerné. Cependant, les syndicats demandent à ce que les effectifs policiers soient durablement renforcés pour endiguer cette situation qui tend à se généraliser en Bretagne, touchant aussi des villes comme Brest et Lorient, assure encore Julien Le Cal.

Bruno Retailleau promet « des mesures »…

Bruno Retailleau était attendu à 15 h 30 au port de plaisance de Quiberon. Après une présentation de l’action de l’État en mer et en Atlantique par le préfet maritime de l’Atlantique, une présentation des moyens de l’État en mer dans le Morbihan suivra.

La visite se terminera par l’inauguration de la nouvelle vedette de la brigade nautique de Quiberon, programmée à 16 h 30.

Et devinez ?

Le ministre de l’Intérieur se rendra dans la soirée à Ploërmel, pour un meeting, à 19 h, à la salle des fêtes.

Encore une tournée bien organisée !

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Eight people have been charged after suspected cocaine was seized by officers from a specialist crime team in Merseyside.

Officers from the Organised Crime Partnership – a joint investigation team comprised of Merseyside Police and National Crime Agency officers – carried out strikes at addresses in Liverpool, Sefton and Southport on 6 and 7 May.

The officers recovered around five kilos of a substance which, after initial testing, is suspected to be cocaine.

Officers arrested six men and two women, who were last night charged with conspiracy to supply Class A drugs.

The eight, due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court today [8 May], are:

• Paul Lockyer, 42, of Selworthy Road, Birkdale, Southport;
• James Neary, 56, of Grey Street, Bootle, Sefton;
• Paul McArdle, 33, of Buckfast Close, Netherton;
• Lee Nugent, 45, of Church Road, Waterloo, Liverpool;
• Stephen Lynch, 37, of Keene Court, Netherton, Liverpool;
• Christopher Horrocks, 45, of Buckley Hill Lane, Sefton, Liverpool;
• Julie McCafferty, 43, of Church Road, Waterloo, Liverpool;
• Michelle Higgins, 38, of Clocktower Drive, Liverpool.

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Four drug smugglers have been sentenced over a plot to smuggle more than a ton of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of Cornwall, after a National Crime Agency investigation.

The crime group members were found with more than a ton of the Class A drug on board their boat, the Lily Lola, in September last year.

Michael Kelly, 45, and Jake Marchant, 27, pleaded guilty before trial.

Jon Williams, 46, of Windmill Terrace, St Thomas, Swansea, and Patrick Godfrey, 31, of Danygraig Road, Port Tennant, Swansea, were convicted after a trial in March of smuggling the £100m haul.

Shortly after 2pm on 13 September, the Border Force cutter HMC Valiant was on patrol off the north coast of Cornwall and deployed a RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) to intercept the Lily Lola.

Williams, the captain and who had bought the boat for around £140,000 two months earlier, was at the helm. Marchant, of no fixed abode, was next to him. Kelly, of Portway, Manchester, was in the accommodation area and Godfrey was asleep in a deck chair.

The Lily Lola was taken into a secure port and the seized substances, which were divided into bales, removed and tested showing them to be high purity cocaine.

An electronic device that had been on board the Lily Lola was downloaded and some messages were recovered. These demonstrated the boat receiving instructions and co-ordinates from a third party.

Also, Godfrey’s phone showed he sent a message to someone saying ‘delete everything u see and not show anybody’. His phone also made the internet search ‘how long does it take a ship to leave peru to uk’.

A tracker was found in the drugs haul which NCA investigators established was linked to a user in South America

Williams, Godfrey and Marchant made no comment in interview and Kelly claimed he was on a fishing trip. But faced with the evidence against them, Kelly and Marchant pleaded guilty at Truro Crown Court on 15 October.

Today the men returned to court.

Williams was sentenced to 26 years; Godfrey to 25 years; Marchant to 18 years and Kelly 21 years.

NCA branch commander Derek Evans said: “The NCA works around the clock to fight the threat of Class A drugs which wreck people’s lives and devastate our communities.

“Working with Border Force and the Joint Maritime Security Centre, we prevented a huge haul of cocaine from hitting the streets of the UK and wider Europe and ensured organised criminals are deprived of the significant profits they would have gained had these drugs made it into the country.”

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La Policía de Ecuador capturó al jefe de una de las disidencias de las FARC que había huido de Colombia y al que se atribuye tráfico de cocaína a gran escala

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