OSS – On Thursday, September 11, the police, in collaboration with their safety partners, held a large traffic control near the A59 in Oss. Many vehicles were removed from the road and extensively checked, with the aim of disturbing undermining crime within the transport and logistics sector.
The police imposed more than 600 traffic fines, three people were arrested and € 80,000 in outstanding claims were collected by, among others, the Tax Authorities. Three vehicles were also seized.
The check was carried out by the police unit of East Brabant, with the support of the Tax Authorities, Customs, RDW, the RIEC, and the municipalities of Oss-Bernheze, Maashorst and Land van Cuijk.
In a parking lot near the A59 in Oss, control streets were set up, where (order) cars and small trucks were thoroughly inspected. The vehicles were checked for hidden spaces and tracking dogs, among other things, were used to track down drugs or money.
The selection of vehicles took place, among other things, by means of ANPR (automated license plate recognition). In addition, otherwise striking vehicles were accompanied by motorcyclists from the highway to the audit site.
Narcotic drugs found and various cars towed
For various checks, more than 600 fines were handed out, including ten for driving under the influence of drugs. Various vehicles were also seized. Several people had to pay an outstanding claim from the tax authorities on the spot.
The Administrative Intervention Team Maas and Leijgraaf (IML) was also active on this day. In Uden she came across a building where a trade amount of different types of narcotic drugs was found. 10-counts of slippers illegal cigarettes were also found that seized customs. The municipality of Maashorst will make the assessment of closing the building in question on the basis of the Opium Act for a period. A person has been arrested for this.
A control of a vehicle yielded so much information that a step was made to the driver’s home. In the home a large sum of cash, a forbidden weapon and a commercial amount of drugs were found.
High risk
The police and its partners consider undermining within the transport and logistics sector as a high risk. Criminal networks often use this sector to transport and hide illegal goods such as drugs, weapons or money. They also buy people to work in the sector, or put them under pressure to work with. These forms of crime entail violence and undermine both the transport sector and the government. For this reason, the emphasis in these traffic controls was on combating undermining in the transport and logistics sector.
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