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| UPDATED
EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 27th May, 2005 |
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| 400 sign up against drugs |
STOP the crack dealers!
This is the simple but stark message that under-siege residents
and traders in Camden Town are sending to the Town Hall.
More than 400 people have signed a petition appealing for
help and are due to meet with ward councillors on Friday.
They say that drug dealing on the corner of Bayham Street
and Camden Road – a notorious haunt highlighted on numerous
occasions by the New Journal – is spilling into residential
streets.
Campaigners have revealed Greenland Road and Carol Street
are hotspots that need most attention.
Aftab Ahmed, a newsagent working in Greenland Road, said:
“This is a community problem. If one dealer is arrested
then another one comes along.”
The warning bears a chilling similarity to an alert made by
residents in the same area 12 months ago after a posse of
dealers ambushed Mr Ahmed in his shop.
He said: “The council needs to find a way of stopping
this. It will only get worse.”
Many of the protesters that will greet councillors in Greenland
Road remain angry that the building once used by the Camden
Town Neighbourhood Advice Centre is empty even, though it
is now 18 months since the charity was evicted.
Plans have been mapped out to turn the vacant building into
a base for patrolling police officers.
Councillor Jake Sumner said: “It is something that the
ward councillors want, its something the police want because
they are bang in the middle and its something that the residents
want. Clearly it would help and we need get on with it.”
With regards to the residents’ petition, he added: “We
view the petition as something that is helpful because it
raises the issues and concerns. It can also be used in hearings
for Anti-Social Behaviour Order hearings, which we are now
seeing more of in Camden Town.”
Police Inspector John Daley said officers were alert to the
problems facing residents.
He said: “We are fully aware of the issues surrounding
Camden Town we are working together in partnership with the
council and deploying resources for both short term and long
term solutions.”
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