During this year's St . Patricks Day Parade, for example, the police confiscated 200 open alcohol containers, compared with 2,601 confiscations during this year's Puerto Rican paraDay
Slovak customs alone confiscated 41.3m illicit cigarettes last year.
Agents confiscated 149 vehicles, 3 aircraft, 3 vessels and 169 weapons, the officials said.
They confiscated 200 firearms, including 50 machine-guns, and 30kg of plastic explosives.
Officers had also confiscated 300kg (660lb) of suspected chemicals, including 490 pounds of melamine, he said.
The police have confiscated 14 machetes, 26 bows, arrows, 3 axes, 4 spears and 44 guns.
The police said they confiscated 40 tons of marijuana, 50 assault rifles and 9 antiaircraft guns.
Greater Manchester Police said it had confiscated 400 of the legal highs, known as "poppers".
Authorities recently confiscated 10,000 Malay-language Bibles containing the word Allah.
In late 2009 the government confiscated 10,000 Bibles in which God was called Allah.
Recently, the government confiscated 10,000 copies of Malaysian-language Bibles because they contained the word Allah.
