The Department of Crime Services in the Sierra Leone Police has in their weekly media briefing hosted at Police headquarters, on George Street in Freetown, informed journalists that on 5 July 2023, a fishing vessel owned by the Sierra Fisheries Company was attacked by armed robbers while fishing at the Yaliboyah area.
Police say the alleged armed robbers used a speed boat and attacked a vessel own by a legitimate fishing company in Sierra Leone.
Police disclosed that the captain for the fishing vessel sustained gunshot during the confrontation and copped with the pain until when they reached at shores.
Police confirmed that the said captain is alive and responding to medical treatment.
As part of their mandate to protect lives and property police naval patrol teams are still searching for the perpetrators on and off shores and have vowed to put strong measures in place to halt such reoccurrence.
The Director of Operations, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Brima Jah told journalist that government has procured three brand new patrol boats, aimed at aiding policing the country’s waters and other costal settlements that had over the years listed as hard to reach areas for the police.
AIG Jah continued that when the boats commissioned, they will serve as security assurance for fishing vessels and artisanal fishermen that had long been complaining of pirates’ attacks.
Report from the regions of Sierra Leone has it that Sierra Leone is relatively quit after the just concluded multitier elections, and as such, the police are monitoring post-election period with few isolated incidences.
However, joints border patrols were reported on going across the country.
