A magistrate has ordered the police here on the island, not to drink the alcohol which was confiscated and placed in their custody.
He made the order as one of the persons prosecuted last Friday asked whether bottles of various alcoholic drinks seized from him were to be returned.
“You’re not getting those back. Those are going to be kept by the court and, may be sold in auction sale sometime soon,” the magistrate said.
“None will be consumed by the police.Correct sergeant Graham? the Magistrate further said, directing his attention to the sergeant of police present in the courtroom and who was at the time in charge of the Mespo Police Station.
Magistrate Burnette said recently that expressed the view that St Vincent and the Grenadines has the highest consumption of alcohol compared to other countries.
The Magistrate expressed the view during a sitting of the Mesopotamia Magistrate Court last Friday as he
dealt with matters where a number of persons from some villages in the Marriaqua Valley were prosecuted for selling alcohol while not having a licence to do so.
