Joint police forces are conducting one of the largest actions on finding persons suspected for organized crime and traffic of drugs and weapons, from the early morning hours in several towns in BiH including Brcko, Bijeljina, Banja Luka, Odzak, Celic, Doboj and Prnjavor.

Prosecutors from the Special department for organized crime, economic crime and corruption of the BiH Prosecution are in the field and coordinate the work of police.

Several persons were arrested so far in this action; BiH Prosecution announced.

Hundreds of Bosnian police officers raided more than 100 locations and seized large quantities of drugs and weapons, in one of the country's largest actions against organized crime, officials said Friday.

Police officers from Bosnia's Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat federation, as well as from the Brcko district, raided the locations Thursday and Friday and detained 60 people, among them two serving police officers.

"We filed criminal charges against all of them and kept in custody 33 suspects," said Gojko Vasic, head of the Serb Republic's criminal police directorate. "We targeted 73 people but 13 escaped."

The police seized 6.5 kilograms of heroin, 180 kg of marijuana and certain quantities of cocaine and tablets, as well as large quantities of weapons and ammunition, officials said.