Poggioreale, drugs seized in a package for a prisoner

Naples. “Yesterday, during routine checks, approximately 40 grams of cocaine were found, well hidden in a package containing underwear intended for prisoners.”

The news was reported by Tiziana Guacci, regional secretary for Campania of the Autonomous Union of Penitentiary Police. “The prison of Poggioreale It hosts an average of 2.100-2.200 inmates, which means that thorough control is extremely difficult,” explains the trade unionist.

Fortunately, the high professionalism of the penitentiary police who work there on a daily basis allows and has allowed also on this occasion to best manage the numerous critical events that occur".

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“Every day – he continues – the prison police carry out a silent battle to prevent an increasingly widespread and dramatic drug dealing from spreading inside the prisons of Campania, given also the high number of drug addicts among the inmates. Hashish, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and subutex, a synthetic drug that is also used at the Sert for those in treatment, are the ones that are most widespread and seized by the Baschi Azzurri.

Obviously, the action of contrasting, spreading and consuming drugs in prison sees the precious commitment of the Penitentiary Police, which for this also uses its own dog units. This makes it clear how the intelligence and control activity of the prison by the Penitentiary Police becomes fundamental.

This must increasingly convince us of the importance of dedicating professional development to prison police officers, such as activities aimed at preventing attempts to introduce drugs into prison, precisely in terms of combating the use and trade of narcotics".