Breaking up Mombasa’s drug cartels

DRUGS-CHASE; Old Town Area Chief Ahmewd Abdulrazak (left) and plain cloth POolice Office leads a suspected Drug addict (handicuffed in black vests) ito the nearest Police station after Police raided a Drug den in one of the abandoned houses at the old Town of Mombasa on Saturday,05th September 2015. The operation that also included Community Policing youths netted hundreds of suspects and several drugs. {PHOTO: MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD}

A police radio crackles. “I get you .. roger...” the officer standing on the shores of the Indian Ocean, in the Fayaz area of Old Town speaks into his walkie-talkie.

“Proceed!” His colleague on the other end directs.