The Algarve coast again has been blessed with the arrival of free bales of hashish, securely packaged and drifting near beaches at Aljezur and Vila do Bispo.
The Sines department of the Coastal Control Unit of the GNR has secured a total of 151 kilograms of hashish that arrived on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, packed in four bales.
The GNR said that the narcotic was just drifting around “so it was not possible to find the offenders."
This ‘search and secure’ operation has ensured the public has not managed to get hold of this floating bonus as the Coastal Control Unit and the GNR Protection and Relief Intervention Group added these bales to the week’s tally.
In the last few days several bales of hashish have been found, weighing about 40 kilos each, at various locations along the coast, including at the Ria Formosa islands.
On April 24, the crew of the Portuguese Navy ship ‘Cisne’ dragged onboard a bale of hash weighing 30 kilos when on operations about 3.5 nautical miles (about 6.5 kilometres) south of the island of Culatra.
A day later, a Faro council cleaning team found a washed up bale and the Navy has politely asked the fishing community and the general public to alert the local Maritime Police if they find suspicious objects at sea or along the coast.
Early morning dog walkers can forget any thoughts of keeping such a stash as, as well as rendering the user insensible for long periods, the drugs are not covered by any salvage laws and anyone caught moving a bale, let alone taking one home, will be arrested.
Comments
If your are sitting next to the bail smoking hashish or
have some in your handbag or keep some at home, it might not be such a good idea to call any police.
Any other time it is a moral decision. Do you want schoolchildren in the Algarve being offered drugs in the street, do you want to help the community of Aljezur to be safe, if the answer is yes, go to the police. They will be grateful.
Most countries have once in a while dishonest police man or women but considering the terrible police station, the bad cars and the low salaries I know that the police in the Algarve are doing all they can to keep the public safe. Do not listen to old tales of past times.
If you want to be protected, help protecting other people to.
Ex-PJ Goncalvo Amaral being famously linked to at least one beating up of a Portuguese mother who had reported her missing child - before Madeleine McCann's kidnap.