The Irish Times is reporting that "It is the second such major seizure of Ringaskiddy in cocaine in recent years and follows the seizure of 172 kgs of cocaine with a street value of €12 million worth in a similar joint operation between Revenue and Gardaí in February 2021. On that occasion, Garda search teams and customs rummage teams, using an X-ray scanner and assisted by sniffer dog, Marley, uncovered the drugs after searching several of the 12m containers aboard the ship after she docked in Ringaskiddy."
X-ray scanners and drug sniffing dogs at the ports. That's important.
That's exactly what Vancouver Ports dont have.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was thinking. A wise investment no doubt.
Delete"Don't have"? I must have just "imagined" that Nat Geo episode of "To Catch a Smuggler" that had a whole team of like 10 people from CBP running container ships through a combination of on board search team and containers coming off going through a scanner at the Port of Vancouver/Delta.
Delete"Not having" is not the problem. The problem is that they only have scanners and time to do 10% of the container traffic coming in. Until it's 100% xray of containers, like getting on a plane, a certain amount will continue to get through.
Right u r anonymous
DeleteOnce the ports are secure, manufacturers will become local.
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily. We're not growing too many coca plants out here. That's a total cop out. It's an unjustified excuse to do nothing.
DeleteCoca requires very specific conditions. If it could be grown in the required quantities anywhere else than where it is, that would already have happened.
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