Crime Office Turns Into Crime Scene
The room at the Totogo Police Station has since been cordoned off with a yellow tape labelled ‘crime scene’.
Wednesday 14 February 2024 | 11:39
Totogo Police Station on February 13, 2024. (Inset: Part of the station was cordoned off yesterday as investigations continue on how drugs recently found in the Central Division were allegedly tampered with at the station). Photo: Ronald Kumar
The Totogo Police Station crime office, where seized methamphetamine from a drug raid in the Central Division is kept, has been cordoned off as a crime scene.
Divisional crime officer central ASP Isoa Natui reported that the methamphetamine kept in the office had been allegedly tampered with by an unknown person on Friday night.
Acting Commissioner of Police Juki Fong Chew confirmed the report lodged by the divisional crime officer central.
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The room at the Totogo Police Station has since been cordoned off with a yellow tape labelled ‘crime scene’.
Acting Police Commissioner Chew made it clear that there was no place in the force for officers found to be colluding with those in the illicit trade.
Totogo Police Station on February 13, 2024. (Inset: Part of the station was cordoned off yesterday as investigations continue on how drugs recently found in the Central Division were allegedly tampered with at the station). Photo: Ronald Kumar
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Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Siromi Turaga said there was a need to have a building where all drugs admitted for evidence could be kept.
“When I went to Nadi, what caught my attention was when they spoke about the exhibit, I said I want to visit this place because I know not all Police Stations around the country have an exhibit room, I can tell you that for a fact,” Mr Turaga said.
“The state of art building in Nadi, yes, but maybe not what we tend to see in the movies, but at least much better than what it was before,” he said.
The Fiji Sun has established that the drugs seized from the major drug raid in Nadi were kept in a different place from the ones tampered with at Totogo.
In an earlier interview, Assistant Commissioner of Police Operation, Livai Driu has confirmed the drugs which were exhibited as evidence from the recent drug find in Nadi were well secured and protected.
Mr Driu said the drugs were under police watch.
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