POLICE on patrol took a quantity of dangerous drugs and a firearm off the streets of New Providence in separate incidents.

In the first incident, shortly after 11pm on Tuesday, Selective Enforcement Team officers conducted a search of an abandoned building on Marshall Road, where they uncovered a shotgun. No one was arrested.

In the second incident, shortly before 10pm on Wednesday, Mobile Division officers were on patrol, when they observed three men walking on Bimini Avenue off Market Street.

The men on seeing the officers dropped a bag and fled. The officers gave chase but were unable to catch the men, police said. The officers retrieved the bag and found it to contain 109 small packages of marijuana.