COVID-19: Girls aged 17 and 14 years found sniffing glue during curfew hours

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Police officers on patrol at a checkpoint during the curfew hours. Picture: SUPPLIED/FIJI POLICE

A woman aged 19 with two girls aged 17 and 14 years were found sniffing glues during curfew hours.

According to police they were part of the 32 cases of breach of curfew restrictions were recorded over the last 48-hour-period.

“Between 11pm Thursday to 4am Friday, 16 reports were recorded with the Southern Division recording fourteen reports whereas the Eastern and Northern Divisions recorded one case each.

Four women were found drinking with two men in a cassava patch along a crosscut in Raiwai. Another woman aged 19 and two young girls aged 17 and 14 were found sniffing glue in Nadawa,” said Acting Commissioner of Police Rusiate Tudravu.

He added from 11am last night to 4am this morning another 16 arrests were recorded.

“The Western Division recorded nine cases, Southern six and the Central one. All the arrests made in the Western Division involved those who were drunk in public. The arrests include a 17-year- old boy and a 49-year-old woman.”

All the arrests made in the Southern Division also involved men who were drunk.

The lone arrest recorded in the Central Division involved a man in his 20s who was found drunk and loitering in Suva.

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