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| UPDATED
EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 20th
May, 2005 |
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| Town Hall chief sees raid on crack houses
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The raid at Hornbeam House
The raid at Wendling House |
POLICE smashed their way into two Camden crack houses on Friday
morning – watched by Labour council leader Councillor
Dame Jane Roberts.
Officers raided flats in Hornbeam House on the Maitland Park
estate in Chalk Farm and at Wendling House in Gospel Oak,
arresting two women and recovering cocaine, heroin, stolen
credit cards and drugs paraphernalia.
A shower of glass rained down as police in body armour dived
in through a window in the high-profile raid at Hornbeam House.
At Wendling House, police again climbed in through a smashed
window rather than using the door.
Familiar complaints by neighbours about drug addicts coming
and going at all hours, using stairwells to take drugs and
as toilets had been made over the last month to officers working
on the new Safer Neighbourhoods teams in Haverstock and Gospel
Oak wards.
Senior officers hope the teams, which work full-time at ward
level and cannot be moved elsewhere to cover other police
operations, will continue to receive good information from
residents.
PC Michael Branford said: “The idea was to send a clear
message.
“Hopefully, it will deal with the problem but also send
a message to the other tenants that we are acting on the information
we receive.
“The operation was designed to be seen.”
Cllr Roberts, who joined the officers from Kentish Town in
the mid-morning raid, said: “I was impressed with the
professionalism of the police going in so swiftly and searching
for evidence of drug use and dealing.
“It shows what can be done when residents, the council
and the police come together to tackle anti-social behaviour.”
Two women aged 41 and 49 were bailed to reappear at a Camden
police station later this month.
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