Police did not record an incident over the weekend when the 2022 Coca-Cola Games came to a close. Co-operation between stakeholders and Police made it easier for them to conduct surveillance at the annually-held event.

Chief Operations Officer and assistant commissioner of Police, Abdul Khan, said the three-day event had been declared incident-free in as far as safety and security matters were concerned.

“All officers deployed had one mission in mind and that was to ensure students were able to enjoy the three-day event and that was well achieved, and we thank everyone for their co-operation and support,” he said.

“Our focus was to make sure all the hard work, sacrifices and resources that went into preparing participating students, were not marred by any incident that would have impacted their ability to take part, or for the organisers to conduct the athletics meet,” he said.

“We understood that there was a lot of excitement building up to this week, understandably knowing that the Games had been put off for two years,” he said.

He said with thousands of people turning up every day, safety and security was well maintained, largely due to the support of the general public.

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