A policeman was held yesterday during a drug bust coordinated between law-enforcement personnel in Jamaica and Canada.

The policeman was held with another man in Jamaica, while several other people were arrested in Canada, a release from the Jamaica Constabulary Force said last night. The name and rank of the policeman is being withheld.

The JCF said the arrests follow a nine month coordinated international operation between investigators from the Anti-Corruption Branch, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Toronto Airport Drug Enforcement Unit, the Peel Regional Police, the Toronto Police Service and Canada Border Services Agency.

Those detained overseas were held in the Greater Toronto area.

All are being held in connection with an international narcotics trafficking network-involving shipments from the Sangster International Airport, the release said.