Brest Province drug traffic increases this year

Policemen have registered an increase in drug traffic in Brest province. It is slight in most issues, about a few hundredths. The press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has informed ERB about it: "Speaking about drugs – there were 555 cases registered in 2008 and 594 – in 2009. Psychoactive drugs and precursors — 534 and 557 cases respectively. The increase in sowing and growing weed totals 0.2 per cent”.

The main discovery of 2009 was a laboratory that produced methamphetamine in Brest, said a representative of the press service Alyaksandra Zaharava.