Police: 'We'll be coming for you'
POLICE in Plymouth have delivered a stark warning to drug-abusers and dealers: "We're coming to get you."
It comes just two days after officers arrested a 46-year-old man in connection with a raid in Channel Park Avenue, Efford, during which they discovered more than half a kilo of amphetamine.
The man was arrested on suspicion of possessing controlled drugs with intent to supply.
In the last 12 months 19 drug search warrants have been executed in Efford, which have led to at least 17 arrests.
Police have now issued a stark warning to drug-dealers. Efford's neighbourhood beat manager, Pc Al Roberts, warned that this was "just the beginning".
"The neighbourhood team will actively pursue every lead in relation to drug supply and drug use in Efford," Pc Roberts said.
"It's ongoing and we will continue to knock on people's doors very early where drug abuse and supply is believed to be active.
"This is just the beginning. There are a few more doors that we'll be kicking in. We're coming to get you.
"You will not remain anonymous. We will name and shame you.
"We are coming back and we will kick you out when we catch you."
Pc Roberts said his police team was now delivering leaflets to all residents living close to the most recent arrest in Channel Park Avenue.
"We're highlighting the fact we have carried out a police raid on a property in line with the Misuse of Drugs Act," Pc Roberts added.
"We're also highlighting that it's positive action we are taking, and requesting additional information, where available, to support us."
Pc Roberts said the aim was to make the Efford community feel more at ease.
"We'll listen to residents and act on intelligence gathered from the community," he said.
"Drug supply and dealing will not be tolerated.
"We want to put residents at ease and make them feel safe in their communities."
During the latest Efford raid, six police officers, acting as a section of a targeted police team, stormed the address, using a battering ram to smash down the front door.
More than half a kilo of amphetamine, in a block, was found in a bedroom, as well as a bag which contained a quantity of white powder.
The powder has been sent away for tests.
The drugs have an estimated street value of more than £6,500.
A 46-year-old man from Efford has been given bail and must go back to Charles Cross police station on Tuesday, April 14. Anyone with any information regarding the latest arrest is asked to call the police on 08452 777 444 quoting the crime reference number EC09 1298.
Members of the public can call the police anonymously to report drug-abuse or dealing in Efford by calling Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
tnichols@ theplymouthherald.co.uk
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by Cliff, Greenbank
Tuesday, February 10 2009, 5:53PM
“Mr Mguuyakuku,
I think that was an unnessecary comment regarding your local policing team. I walk to work most days and see them. They have done wonders for my street and got rid of a druggie flat. It was just not publicised. Meetings are very old school too, as you just get the same old complainers attending and I am afraid it is just not you complainers and moaners living in Greenbank, there are people like myself and my family.”
by M, Plymouth
Monday, February 09 2009, 5:19AM
“The reason we have gangs is because it's illiegal. Yes legalizing things won't make the problem go away, but prohibiting them hasn't made it go away either. At least with it legalized the gangs and violence that comes with them dissapears,
You wouldn't have people dealing weed because people would be able to grow their own stuff in their own homes.
And at least with drugs legalized and taxed there'd be more money (£40 billion) to go towards actually helping people with their problems and the problems they cause in a way that might actually work.
The lesser of two evils.
Rather than flogging a dead horse for another thirty years and throwing billions of pounds down the drain enforcing an unenforcable law.
Seems like common sence to me.
Take Dance acadamy for example.
Yes whilst it was open drugs were consumed inside, But the drugs were all in one place, on the fringe of town, away from everywhere else. Anyone who spends time in town on the weekends will notice that now the drugs are absolutly Everywhere, So is it really better that DA closed down? Of course it isn't.
The war on drugs is pathetic gesture politics by politicans with no ideas and grasping at straws.
Jaquie Smith actually said that since cannabis became a class C records of it's use had fallen significantly, So, with that information in mind it got bumped backup to a B. Where's the sence in that?
Exactly there isn't any, just like the rest of this pathetic "War on drugs".”
by mike w, ply
Sunday, February 08 2009, 5:23PM
“stark warning? you will be given a reabilatation oredr you naughty boys and because you are a filthy dirty junkie we will give you more dole money cause you deserve it you poor little love !!!”
by paul, isleworth
Sunday, February 08 2009, 5:14PM
“Another load of kids chucking their toys out of the pram because the nasty coppers are preventing the nice kind dealers from selling their wares to the poor and vulnerable and the stupid and the schoolkids...blah blah blah...
If half of you didn't bury your heads in the sand (sorry, bury your heads in a bag of smelly old green plants) then we wouldn't have dealers...If we didn't have dealers then we wouldn't have greedy, violent desperate people marking their territory with fear and thuggish behaviour, If we didn't have those vile people then you wouldn't have the Police gasping those all important headlines and knocking on doors in your neighbourhood to take your toys away.
Oh and all drugs are dangerous, all alcohol is dangerous and so is crossing the road with a blindfold on - unfortunately the people in this country are too stupid to do things in moderation and need to be controlled. If the people behaved then you wouldn't become servile, controlled dullards - you might actually enjoy life.”
by Mick, Barbican
Sunday, February 08 2009, 4:31PM
“Rhetorician quote- "Have just been passed by a huge convoy of police cars and vans.."
No doubt swooping on a kid for dropping an empty Walkers Prawn Cocktail bag in the street somewhere..”