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Arrest in Delancey Street, where police fear one suspect may have swallowed drugs |
Police: ‘We’ll keep targetting dealers’
Picture exclusive: Police in class A drug busts across the borough
A DOZEN alleged crack and heroin dealers were arrested as undercover police targeted Camden Town’s class A drugs market.
Suspected dealers were arrested in Camden Town, Mornington Crescent and the West End as weeks of surveillance of the class A drugs scene culminated in busts across the borough over several days. Ten people had been charged with dealing offences last night (Wednesday).
Two men arrested in Delancey Street, Camden Town, on Friday night are thought to be “serious players” by detectives, who also suspect that dealers may have deliberately recruited residents of homeless hostels in King’s Cross and the West End as dispensable “runners”, paying them up to £200 a day in cash and drugs to supply to queues of users who alerted by phone.
When police arrested one such suspect on Thursday morning, she had just been watched making an alleged deal in Harrington Square Gardens, Mornington Crescent.
The swoop followed 20 arrests made last October by Camden CID as part of Operation Nardus, a council-backed scheme to rein in dealers in Camden’s drugs “frontline”, between Mornington Crescent and Chalk Farm, and brings the total number of alleged dealers arrested by undercover police in Camden over the past year to nearly 50.
Detectives deny that the new arrests show a vacuum being constantly filled and point to the fact that some of those targeted have been dealing in Camden Town for several years.
“This is not a new supply of people,” said Detective Sergeant Sean Tuckey, who runs the operation.
“This operation shows that those dealers who may have evaded us last summer have not escaped us.
We’ll just keep hitting them.”
The borough’s commander, Chief Supt Dominic Clout, was blunt about the operations at a meeting with residents on Monday night. Chief Supt Clout said: “It costs a lot of money, costs a lot of resources, and takes a lot of time and effort.
“It is never ending and we all know these drug dealers slowly, slowly come back.
“But the message we are sending is, frankly: ‘Go somewhere else’.” |
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