Novo Mesto Police Department

Young man attacks police officers twice in less than a month

Šentjernej – Police officers pulled over on Monday evening a 21-year-old driver who became violent as the officers tried to breathalyse him, making death threats to them and damaging a police vehicle. The same man attacked and injured two police officers less than a month ago as he was pulled over in a tractor without driver’s licence.

Illegal migration in January-April period up 86% y/y

Ljubljana – Slovenian police dealt with 3,107 cases of illegal migration in the first four months of this year, up nearly 86% on the same period last year. Afghan citizens accounted for more than a quarter of all the illegal migrants caught from January through April, fresh police data shows.

Police apprehend three people transporting illegal migrants

Maribor/Novo Mesto – Maribor police detained a Moldovan man on Monday who was illegally transporting ten Bangladeshi nationals in his vehicle, while his accomplice, believed to be an Afghan national, is still on the run. On the same day, the Novo Mesto police arrested a man and a woman from Georgia that were illegally transporting seven migrants.