Seven hours, 23 police officers from the PUMA Immigration and Border Police unit, seven officers from neighboring Bavaria and two drug sniffer dogs: this is how you could put Wednesday’s bilateral priority check on the B 148 in St. Peter am Hart into numbers.
The goal: combating cross-border crime. The international traffic route is used to travel east from Germany, Belgium or England. The police mainly focused on vehicle movement, theft of stolen goods and drug-related crime.
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“We have arrested a 54-year-old Croat who is still serving a prison sentence and a woman for illegal residence,” said operations manager Gottfried Hohensinn at Tumeltsham police station. In addition, a driver was caught without a driver’s license and three drivers were unable to show a valid registration certificate. They had to hand in their license plate number on the spot.
Backlog due to checks
Several hundred vehicles were checked between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m., including a Flix bus. In addition to the arrests and reports, officials issued 22 organ mandates. On average, a check takes fifteen minutes, but due to the very heavy traffic, there was sometimes a backlog.
Source: Krone
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