
State police along with Guardia di Finanza have started monitoring the territory's air from the air since the beginning of the month to identify hash-planted parcels, which are most visible at this time of year.
Within these operations, the monitoring was recently moved to northern areas of the country.
State Police Director-General Gledis Nano, along with the GDF team, for 3 hours, monitored from the air, by helicopter equipped with special equipment these areas.
During the monitoring were verified, in deep areas such as Dukagjin, Theth, Valbona, Muriqan, Kumanovo and Kumanovo, etc., coordinates in which there were suspicions of cultivation of narcotic plants. Also, a floating vehicle was followed and verified, which had no illegal items on board, but had gone out fishing.
At the conclusion of the monitoring, Director General Gledis Nano and GDF Captain Sergio Angeluci expressed:
"Today, we conducted a monitoring flight, along with colleagues from Guardia di Finanza, mainly in the northern area of the country. My participation in this flight was not simply to thank Italian colleagues working to support us in the fight against cannabis cultivation, but to show all the support of the State Police and my personal determination, as Director General of the State Police, as well as of all effective, regarding the crackdown on the problem of cannabis cultivation.
I want to thank the colleagues of guardia di Finanza, both the helicopter crew and other colleagues, who monitor from the control centre all the flights and locations of the countries, suspected as part of the cultivation of cannabis, are a team of professionals and for this I thank Interforce's colleagues, the Director General of The Italian Police and the Italian Interior Ministry, Which has offered us this opportunity, to locate with the latest technology that the flying vehicle, the helicopter, which we have behind our backs, carries with it.
I want to assure all State Police employees who will have my personal support regarding the fight against cannabis cultivation and any other kind of lawlessness in our country.
I congratulate and thank them for all the work they do on the ground, it is not easy to track and locate any cannabis plant, planted in the most broken grounds of our country.
I assure you that the State Police is determined, with zero tolerance, against the phenomenon or problem of cannabis cultivation, and we will continue as we have started this year, a little earlier from years past, to identify any country prepared for cannabis cultivation, to destroy and annoy every plant, which in its initial phase, in field planting."
GDF captain Sergio Angeluci stated:
"I thank the Director for the appreciation he expresses for the Italian state and for the Guardia di Finanza. We certainly guarantee maximum impenation, with the aim of realizing this important activity, on Albanian territory."
Air monitoring by the GDF and intensive soil searches, with police and drone employees available to the State Police will continue to follow, with the aim of highlighting and striking any attempt to grow narcotic plants.