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HOME	OCTOBER 01st, 2005

One of the guns discovered missing from the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) is a .38 pistol that was coming into the country illegally from the United States at the St. George's Port about two years ago.

According to a well-placed source, the weapon is among two .38 weapons discovered to be missing from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police force.

The gun was handed over to the police after the Customs Department discovered it inside a barrel that came into the country from the United States. The CID was called in to investigate the incident. No one was arrested. The other gun reported as missing from the CID belonged to RGPF itself. It was used by a policeman to shoot a civilian.

The source also said that an ongoing audit by the police has so far discovered that some of the cash stored at CID as exhibits for cases before the courts are also missing. He could not give details of the amount, except to say that "the audit is continuing".

However, the source said apart from the 3 kilos of cocaine that disappeared from police custody about a month ago, no other cocaine is known to be missing so far.
The police High Command acknowledged that the cocaine disappeared from inside one of their "safe houses" less than a week after it was confiscated by the RGPF drug squad at the Point Salines International Airport (PSIA) from a Grenadian who was about to board a flight to England.

Legal sources are predicting that the police would be hard-pressed to get a conviction of the two suspects arrested in connection with the illegal drugs due to the "theft" of the cocaine.