North Sea Port fights drugs with drones and ANPR cameras

A ‘rummage’ or investigation of a bulk carrier requires a lot of manpower from the police services. Just this summer, a drug cargo worth 10 million euros was found in the port of Ghent on a Brazilian fruit juice boat. “For a coal ship unloading in the port for a few days, you soon have to count on the deployment of about a hundred people, which is hardly sustainable. That’s why we now want to rely more heavily on technological tools,” Luc Cap, judicial director East Flanders of the federal judicial police, explained during a webinar by Nieuwsblad Transport on the occasion of North Sea Port’s Port Week.