UK - Taking the fight against drugs in NI right to dealers door

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17 September 2012
By Gordon Adair District Journalist

How best to fight the war against drugs - try to catch the elusive Mr Bigs or try to disrupt and destroy the sprawling network of dealers selling directly on our streets? The answer, of course, has to be both, but - for the past few weeks - the police in Northern Ireland have been piling the pressure onto street level dealers. The PSNI's Operation Torus been running since August and in just a few weeks, it has seen more than 1,100 searches of people and properties and almost 200 arrests. BBC Northern Ireland district journalist, Gordon Adair, joined one group of officers taking the fight - literally - to the dealers' doors.

ACC Harris rejected any suggestion that hitting the street-level drug dealers like this is not an effective way to tackle the problem. "We know from public feedback that this is what people worry about," he says, "dealing that they see - in their area. And we very much put this operation together to tackle that and to clamp down on it.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19619234
 
How best to fight the war against drugs - try to catch the elusive Mr Bigs or try to disrupt and destroy the sprawling network of dealers selling directly on our streets? The answer, of course, has to be both...

Emphasis mine.

Welcome to the "neutral" BBC!

One day articles like this will look as dated and biased as this (Chumley Warner).
 
They're doing it because this is what people want them to be doing, and people see the low level dealing so thats what they go after.

Well I want a fucking fountain made out of politicians bones that spews liquid gold everywhere, but that shit ain't gonna happen. Neither should this, what happened to enforcing the law because it's the law? instead of just enforcing it because your community wants it?

So angry I can't even type a coherent response!
 
Was funnny to see this though:

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