Six individuals have been arrested and £10,000 price of medicine seized in a collection of police operations cracking down on medication, weapons and dysfunction.
Officers from Lanarkshire’s Alcohol and Violence Discount Unit arrested 5 males and one girl, in reference to medication, weapons and dysfunction offences between Tuesday, April 19 and Saturday, April 23.
Medicine price an estimated avenue worth of greater than £10,000 had been seized in these operations.
Lanarkshire’s Alcohol and Violence Discount Unit moved to guarantee the general public that police had been "working arduous to drive down crime ranges".
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At round 8.10pm, on April 19, officers on patrol stopped and searched a 29-year-old man on Wallace Road, Rutherglen.
He was arrested and charged in reference to medication and offensive weapon offences. The person was launched on an enterprise and can seem at courtroom at a later date.
On April 21, at round 7.45pm, officers stopped a car on Auldhouse Street, Glasgow. Following a search, a 51-year-old man was arrested and charged in reference to drug and dysfunction offences. He was because of seem at Hamilton Sheriff Courtroom on Friday, April 22.
That very same night, officers stopped a car on Glasgow Street, East Kilbride, round 7.15pm. One man, aged 18, was arrested and charged in reference to medication and weapons offences.
He's topic of a report back to the Procurator Fiscal and can seem at a later date.
Additionally final Friday, officers on patrol noticed a automotive in Hunter Road, East Kilbride. The motive force was behaving in a suspicious method and officers approached the car.
A 33-year-old man was subsequently arrested and charged in reference to medication offences. He has been reported to the Procurator Fiscal.
A 21-year-old girl was arrested on Saturday April 23 and charged in reference to medication offences. She was because of seem at Hamilton Sheriff Courtroom on April 25.
At round 9.30pm, the identical night, officers arrested a 32-year-old man after he was stopped in Slenavon Avenue, Rutherglen. He was charged in reference to the possession of an offensive weapon.
He was because of seem at Glasgow Sheriff Courtroom on April 25.
Sergeant Graham Reid, from Lanarkshire’s Alcohol and Violence Discount Unit, mentioned: “We're conscious about the detrimental affect crime has in our neighbourhoods and I want to guarantee the general public that we're working arduous to drive down crime ranges and reduce the affect crime has on our native communities.
"If anybody has issues relating to felony exercise, please report it to us within the information that we'll act in your issues.”
In case you are conscious of any felony exercise or you realize somebody who's concerned in criminality, please contact Police Scotland by way of 101 or 999 in an emergency.
Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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