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BBC News
17 September 2012
By Gordon Adair District Journalist
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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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