Almost every day we listen to the news and read in newspapers and websites for large quantities drugs which are located and confiscated by the Greek police before they are channeled to hangouts of drug addicts.
In warehouses and basements all over Greece where they are hidden by drug trafficking circuits, but also in fields mainly in inaccessible areas where they are cultivated away from prying eyes, her men Police in coordinated operations they carry out and seize drugs before they end up in the "squares" of slow death while wearing handcuffs on cruel traders and traffickers, who in the face of profit do not hesitate to "scatter" death.
However, you have wondered what happens after the end of these police operations and what are the procedures followed by the Hellenic Police. for drugs that are detected and seized? How are they recorded, where are they kept and what is the path they follow until their destruction?
A coordinated operation gets the green light after many days of surveillance, mainly by police officers of the Drug Prosecution Department, after the information or complaint about a drug network has preceded the service.
Depending on the area in which the circuit operates, a special plan is prepared by its competent police department Police in order for the business to be crowned with success.
"Every business is different, it has its own peculiarities. "Success for the Service is to seize the drugs, to handcuff the traffickers and, above all, to be bloodless," says a police officer who has taken part in several such operations, while explaining that the companies that aim to dismantle are more difficult. hemp seedling growing circuits as growers take care to grow the seedlings in inaccessible, inaccessible, and often semi-dormant areas.
In fact, in these cases the work of the police is quite difficult as if the circuit is organized, in addition to the growers, it has guards and plantation monitors usually 24 hours a day.
In such cases, the police wait for the guard or the caretaker to make the mistake and leave the hashish plantation, even for a while. If they get the chance, they even fly drones in order to have a clearer picture of the infrastructure and the extent of the plantation.
The competent police service is then informed and senior officers, after studying all the facts, "make up" the operation plan.
Men of security and drug prosecution with their finger on the trigger as traffickers are often ruthless and do not hesitate to shoot at them in order to escape arrest, wait for hours until they are given the green light and intervene.
At the end of the operation, the seized drugs are taken to the competent police authority where they are weighed and placed in large bags and cardboard boxes.
At the same time, it is prepared by the police service that has confiscated a special document which is included in the case file and they are sent to the general chemist of the state which, after examining them, certifies that they are indeed drugs. Then they are sealed and transported to warehouses of EL.AS. where they are kept 24 hours a day by police, until they take the road of burning.
At least three times a year, drugs are burned, explains Mr. Theodoros Chronopoulos, Police Deputy Director of the Greek Police.
The drugs are burned in a factory furnace in the area of Boeotia. In the presence of a committee chaired by a prosecutor and under the watchful eye of the men of the Drug Prosecution Department, bags containing cannabis, cartons full of heroin and cocaine and envelopes of seized drug pills are waiting to be taken to the hospital. to be completely destroyed.
The men of EL.AS. grab the boxes and bags with them drugs and load the factory special vehicle that looks like a large bulldozer and throws them into the factory oven.