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Camden News - by SIMON WROE
Published: 29 January 2009

Police officers about to raid a property in Queen’s Crescent

Officers storm flats block after tip-offs

POLICE teams continued the borough’s “war on drugs” with a raid on a suspected crackhouse in Queen’s Crescent this week.
An exclusive picture taken by the New Journal shows the moment officers stormed a block of flats in Bassett Street on Tuesday afternoon, acting on tip-offs that it was the scene of drug dealing and anti-social behaviour.
Three female suspects in the shrouded one-bedroom flat overlooking Rhyl Primary School were searched. One woman was arrested on suspicion of theft. Homemade crackpipes and other drug paraphernalia were found at the scene.
A neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said there were often large numbers of people coming and going from the flat late at night.
Sgt Danny Hewitt, from Haverstock Safer Neighbourhoods Team, said: “This arrest is an example of how theft and drugs run hand in hand.”
Three drug raids by the team in the same number of months have led to three arrests. There are more drug busts in their sights, Sgt Hewitt warned.
Last week, Rebecca Francis, 20, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in a young offenders’ institute for supplying crack cocaine and heroin in the Belsize Park area. Camden Police’s crime squad arrested her in Glenloch Road with packages of drugs and more than £600, in September 2008.

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