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Po­lice will be im­ple­ment­ing more stop-and-search ex­er­cis­es along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route af­ter Wednes­day’s dar­ing day­light armed rob­bery aboard a maxi-taxi at Windy Hill in Arou­ca.

The rob­bery was record­ed on a dash­cam in the maxi-taxi, and the footage was wide­ly shared on so­cial me­dia, prompt­ing con­cern for the dri­ver and pas­sen­gers, and con­dem­na­tion for the per­pe­tra­tors who com­mit­ted the rob­bery dur­ing rush-hour af­ter­noon traf­fic.

Po­lice said the 40-year-old dri­ver from Va­len­cia was ply­ing his 24-seater maxi-taxi along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) on Wednes­day when he stopped around 4.45 pm at Five Rivers Junc­tion in Arou­ca to pick up a woman who had been dressed in full Mus­lim garb.