Undeterred, however, were the hundreds of Burmese who had travelled from as far away as Mandalay in the north of the country to catch a glimpse of Ms Suu Kyi, now the political opposition leader, who spent 15 years under house arrest in Rangoon.
Officers who were travelling on the force's new patrol launch Preventer did not arrest the men, who are aged in their 20s and 40s, after they agreed to return their catch.