– There are three people who were taken during last night and last night, operations manager Ole Robert Strandhagen in the Agder police district tells NTB.
They have had police boats out both in Kristiansand and at Tvedestrandsfjorden and in Arendal.
– The police boat has stopped a drunken boat driver near Kilsund. The driver had his boat driver’s license confiscated, says one of them the messages from Agder last night.
More boats out
The police also arrested people for drunk driving in Tvedestrand and in Kristiansand.
– We try to be present and we take people with a blood alcohol level, says Strandhagen.
He believes that good weather has contributed to more alcohol-related cases.
– There were probably a few more boats out, he says.
The police boat that was out east in the Agder district controlled 22 boats during the night. They also handed out 4 summonses for failure to use a life jacket.
Binge-eating youths
The East Police District and the South East Police District have also been out with a police boat during the night.
– The police boat stopped an archipelago jeep for inspection. The boatman, a man in his 50s, blew above the legal value in the breathalyzer. He will be produced for further tests and a case will be opened, writes Sørøst police district i to log regarding an episode in Sandefjord at 0.30.
East police district reports a recreational boat that was stopped with an intoxicated driver at Vesterøy in Østfold at 1.06am.
In Trøndelag, the police were out looking following receiving reports of drunken youths in a boat, but might not find them.
– The report to the police went to overcrowded boats with drunken youths, also jet skis without life jackets, wrote the police at 2.53 last night.
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2024-07-21 08:33:54