AN INTERNATIONAL effort involving Jamaican police and British detectives led to the interception of packages of cocaine with a street value of £75,000 (J$7.5 million) and the arrest of six people in Bristol, England, on Friday.
The drug bust which involved four agencies in three countries, saw the interception of a significant amount of drugs and ammunition, the BBC reported.
"This has removed a considerable amount of cocaine, crack cocaine and heroin which would have been bound for the streets of Bristol as well as potentially lethal firearms and ammunition," the BBC quoted Inspector Paul Appelton of the Bristol police as saying.
According to a BBC news report, the inter-agency exchange was part of an international effort to break a drug-smuggling ring.
The detectives were directed to addresses in Speedwell, Cadbury Heath and Broomhill in England by United States customs officials in Miami, Florida. The officials alerted British customs officers to the packages of cocaine which came from Jamaica bound for Bristol.
The parcels were allowed to continue on to London Heath-row International Airport where officers from the Avon and Somerset's 'Operation Atrium' team intercepted the drugs.
"This has been an operation involving four agencies in three countries across the Atlantic, as well as customs in Miami and in this country (England). We have also been involved with the Jamaican police service during this operation," Inspector Appelton said.
The BBC report said that the persons arrested were being questioned at various police stations in the city.
