Gibraltar police and customs given additional tobacco stop and search powers

Monday, March 2nd 2015 - 05:35 UTC

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Gibraltar police and customs officers have been given additional stop and search powers inside so-called tobacco ‘special zones’. Until now, officers required reasonable suspicion of a tobacco offence before they could stop vehicles and question the occupants. Read full article

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golfcronie
This will put the fear of God into the Spanish smugglers no doubt.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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LEPRecon
@1 golfcronie

It's doubtful as they won't be able to 'bribe' the Gibraltarian police to look the other way, which is what they do with the Spanish police.

But it does make the Spanish claims that Gibraltar is a hotbed of tobacco smuggling look foolish, especially when everyone with half a brain knows that it is Spain where the majority of the smuggling happens.
Mar 02nd, 2015 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Turtle Island
British pirates, even today in this century have left to smuggle illegal goods. I should not be surprised if that these “pirates” are those that are behind the trafficking in organs.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 01:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Clyde15
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Surely organs are too large to smuggle. They would not fit into the boot of a car.
You might have a chance with electronic keyboards.
Mar 03rd, 2015 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
“a friend of mine” once smuggled a piano cross-border, but hid it inside a church organ.
Cunning, huh?
Mar 04th, 2015 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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