16 October 2014
EVENT
Brazil's military police (Polícia Militar: PM) launched a string of raids targeting drug-trafficking gangs in several slums located next to Rio de Janeiro's main airport, the Galeão international airport, on 15 October.
Police motorcyclists patrol the surroundings of Galeão airport in Rio de Janeiro on 14 June 2012. (PA)
The police operation caused severe disruption to road traffic to and from the airport; queues more than 6 km long built up as a result of the checkpoints set up by the police near the airport's cargo terminal. Galeão airport is located on an island (Ilha do Governador) and has only one access road, the highway Galeão. The operation, which involved 200 PM officers backed up by military helicopters, netted half a tonne of marijuana, dozens of rifles, and a grenade, resulting in the arrest of 17 members of the drug gangs that operate in the area, particularly the Morro do Dende favela (slum).
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