The aforementioned claim after our research is seen to have been connected to no institution in The Gambia. What the Gambia has is The Gambia police force not a police department and the Poliso magazine of the Gambia has not published anything of such massage, The PRO of the Gambia police force has also confirmed to us that the message is not from the Gambia Police. The REUTERS staff conducted a fact check on this issue after it emerged in UK, False claim: criminals in the UK are handing out chemically-doused masks in order to commit robbery | Reuters, Which expose the source of the post having emerged from the UK which was shared 1400 times on Facebook and has surface in UK, USA, South Africa and now The Gambia. https://www.reuters.com/…/uk-factcheck-chemical-masks…
Conclusion:
The photo circulating on social media (WhatsApp groups) is found to be false and not from the Gambia Police Force, This is confirmed by the Public Relations Officer of the Gambia Police Force. We equally found out that the picture does not emerge from the Gambia but from UK.
