On Friday traffic blocked up for hours and workmen and gendarmes tried to remove a huge truck from the road way, the gendarmes stated that the vehicle overturned on the Belle Plaine road leading to the border. The driver of the truck was taken to the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital to treat his injuries. To date there is no explanation as to why the truck overturned.
The gendarmes also conducted a major road control in Sandy Ground and Cheverise. The control was aimed at the anti- delinquency. The gendarmes arrested two persons for drug possession and seized 46 grams of cannabis.
The operation that began at 5:00pm and ended at 7:30pm was carried out by some 70 armed Gendarmes from different divisions, split into patrols, and with numerous vehicles.
The Gendarmerie noted the objective of the operation ordered by the Prosecutor was of a preventative nature generally but also to seek out any criminal intent. The operation also offered an opportunity to have direct contact with the population, and answer questions. It said such operations are organised in the interests of citizen's safety and security.
The helicopter from Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, is used to find missing persons, transporting Gendarmes into inaccessible areas, for reconnaissance, and to track criminals that are running from the law and to report their positions to ground units.
