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Drugs crackdown in York continues

5:09am Wednesday 12th December 2007

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POLICE stopped and searched more than 50 people and dealt with more than 40 traffic offences during the first day of a week-long crime crackdown in the west of York.

More than 30 police officers will bee patrolling the streets of Acomb, Dringhouses and Woodthorpe, Holgate and Westfield as part of the high profile Operation Caritas this week.

The operation is York's first ever "week of action", following on from the success of a series of action days across the city in the last 18 months.

Officers carried out two warrants under the Misuse of Drugs Act on Monday but no arrests were made.

They received five tip-offs about crime from members of the public.

*For more details see The Press today.


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Bob hope, York says...
8:52am Wed 12 Dec 07

Isn't this what the police should be doing all the time?!?!

CB-Cold, York says...
8:55am Wed 12 Dec 07

The operation is York's first ever "week of action", following on from the success of a series of action days across the city in the last 18 months.


I'm looking forward to their first ever "year of action"

CB-Cold, York says...
9:18am Wed 12 Dec 07

POLICE stopped and searched more than 50 people


Doesn't actually say that they got any results for those 50 searches though??

XXX, says...
11:40am Wed 12 Dec 07

Bob hope wrote:
Isn't this what the police should be doing all the time?!?!
Yes it is what they should be doing. But they're too busy giving out tickets to motorists and chasing statistics. But those targets are passed down to them by the bosses who are given these targets by the goverment. If they dont get the targets the axe comes down from the goverment in the way of funding. It says to me that the police are aimed in that direction because motorists are easy targets. We cant even keep the people in prison who should be there. So what do the public want the police to do. Make your voice heard and vote in a new goverment.

Mr_Grinch, York says...
1:44pm Wed 12 Dec 07

police officers will bee patrolling the streets of Acomb


Aye, I've seen them buzzing around. It's a right honeypot of crime around there. Let's hope they can organise some kind of sting operation.

(...sorry, I couldn't help it)

brummie-ian, south bank says...
2:51pm Wed 12 Dec 07

nice synergy with the article about the Big Issue seller.

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