Dutch police help intercept English boat carrying ketamine
February 22, 2024

Dutch police assisted in a British operation in which 200 kilos of ketamine were seized on a ship that left Amsterdam and was intercepted in England. Five English men have been arrested.

British police arrested two Englishmen who smuggled the ketamine from the Netherlands to England, and three who helped with the transport. They were arrested in the early morning of February 17. This was after the cargo had been unloaded at a quay on the River Deben in Suffolk, a county in the east of England. The ketamine was then transported by car to a warehouse in Rendlesham. The police found the drugs there after a search.

The National Crime Agency said in a statement on Thursday that the discovery of the drugs is the result of a long-running investigation into the smuggling of drugs from international waters into England.

The action is called a 'fantastic example' of cooperation with the Dutch police and judiciary in combating the overseas drug trade and stopping the smuggling of an 'enormous amount of ketamine', which the police suspect was intended for the English market.