CRIME: POLICE MAKES MORE GAINS IN COMBATING CRIMINALITY IN DELTA STATE .... Recovers One Pump Action Gun, Four Locally Made Guns, Eighteen Rounds Of Live Cartridges In "Stop & Search Operation."

CP Ari Ali Mohammed

The Police Command Headquarters in Delta state, Asaba, has continued to make positive gains in combating criminal elements in the state with the huge numbers of arrests of criminals including recovery of arms and ammunition.

Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Bright Edafe, spokesman of the Police Command Headquarters Asaba, in a statement issued and made available to this platform on Friday, 18th of November, 2022, disclosed that, "on 17/11/2022 at about 2200hrs, Police operatives attached to Ebrumede Division while on stop and search duty along DSC express road Warri, sighted a tricycle with Reg. No. Delta EFR 175 VK conveying two occupants heading towards the Police checking point."

"The operatives flagged down the tricycle for a routine check. Surprisingly, the two occupants of the tricycle jumped out and escaped from the scene abandoning the tricycle." The statement read.

Exhibits

"Upon search of the tricycle, one (1) pump action gun, one (1) locally made long gun, three (3) locally made cut-to-size guns, and eighteen (18) rounds of live cartridges were recovered. 

"Effort is ongoing to arrest the fleeing suspects." The statement concluded.