(PR 298/25)
Four Police officers returned from Nice in France, where at the request of the French National Police, they assisted in a security operation during the United Nations Ocean conference held in recent days in this city at the south-east coast of France.
With thousands of people attending, including high level delegations, Maltese officials were stationed in various strategic places around Nice, assisting in traffic controls as well as crowd controls, as well as searches on suspicious individuals.
In Nice, Sergeants Carlos Farrugia and Christian Bonello, together with Constables Jurgen Portelli and Omar Sharif, worked hand in hand with the French Police, including in vehicle patrols and on foot.
The four Maltese police officers also assisted in a bomb threat, a traffic accident and one of the officers assisted in a case related to cannabis trafficking.
The request for the Police force to send officers from its own to assist another country shows the great collaboration that exists between the respective forces of law and order and the professionalism of the officers of the Police force.