Police confiscate alcohol during New Year’s Eve safari boat raids
01 Jan 2013, 4:00 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
Police conducted raids on five safari boats docked in waters surrounding the island of Hulhumale’ last night (December 31) after receiving information that the vessels had failed to comply with local regulations on keeping and trading alcohol.
The Maldives Police Service has said in a statement that 245 bottles of alcohol found on the five boats were confiscated during last night’s operation over concerns they were not being kept in compliance with national regulations.
Speaking to Minivan News today, Police Spokesperson Sub-Inspector Hassan Haneef said that the regulations and laws outlining the trade and possession of alcohol on tourist resorts and safari boats were not found to have been met in some of the cases on the boats inspected by officers.
”Regulations have been made to determine the procedures of how alcohol should be stored and traded for tourism purposes in order to control the distribution for locals,” Haneef said. ”These bottles were not stored in compliance with the regulations.”
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