OPERATION NEMESIS - COMING TO A DEALER NEAR YOU!!

Good news for the City, Operation Nemesis is set to continue in 2009.  What a fantastic job they have done to rid the City's streets of the scurge of drug dealers,  since its launch. Not only have they found Class A drugs with a street value of £400,000, but also firearms, stun guns,  items of stolen property and cash to the value of £120,000.  This operation is having the right affect, and is sending shockwaves through the criminal community.

Drug dealers have been issued warnings from the  police that they will continue to hunt them down in 2009.  Lets face it,  drugs have been brought in from outside the City for too long, and at last we are seeing the results from all the hard work that the police are putting in to stop this from happening.  510 search warrants have been executed, with 300 arrests being made.  That is what you call excellent results, and long may it continue.

The people of Stoke on Trent need to be alert, and provide the vital information so the police can act upon it.   Very often these crimes are going on right in front of your nose.   For example, a chap and his family moved into our street, and it wasn't long before we got suspicious of what he was upto.  Cars parked up outside in the middle of the night, engine running for hours on end,  large amounts of money/packets definitely being exchanged.  Then one night, a van pulled up, furniture was loaded and he and his family were gone.  It didn't end there.  He then moved a young couple in last summer.  Low and behold, curtains were upto every window, heat lamps on, fans on the go day and night, with suspicious plants waving around.  We the neighbours kept our eye on the activities, and waited for the car to turn up, so we could report it.  It turns out that the police were already one step ahead, and had been keeping watch on this house.  One morning house was raided, young student taken out, and he was prosecuted.

The responsibility of ridding the streets of these dealers does not just fall on the shoulders of the police, we can all play a part.  There are many ways that information can be passed to the police annonymously.

We at PitnPots commend and thank the police for their excellent work, and as a city we should be eternally grateful that this initiative exists.

As PitsnPots takes up more of a community champion role, and with the fact that there has been 15,000 separate hits on our site since 1st December 08, our readers can help to spread the word about this initiative.  We urge all our readers over the coming months to take more community responsibility and help the police and other organisations to help us.  Together we can make Stoke on Trent a great place to live!

For the full story see the link to The Sentinel http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/news/Police-vow-step-drugs-campaign/article-577787-detail/article.html.

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