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'Drug runners' sprint to dealer outside a NURSERY
- Published_at:2013-03-15
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:BBCNewsOne
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- description: This is the terrifying moment a drug dealer parked a car just yards from a children's playground and attracted a running crowd of 30 drug users who surrounded it like children on an ice cream van. The footage released by West Midlands Police today shows the addicts racing after a drug dealer's car to get their fix seconds after he pulls into a street at 8:30am in Bordesley Green, Birmingham. Police released the footage taken from a nearby CCTV camera - which will be shown on BBC1 series Caught Red Handed at 11am tomorrow - after jailing 29 men as part of their Operation No Deal.DCI Nick Walton said: 'You'd imagine drug transactions are carried out in a discrete manner, but the footage we obtained shows around 30 people rush towards the dealer's car in broad daylight. 'I'd never seen anything like it in my police career. It was clear we needed to take decisive action to tackle the problem. No one should be expected to put up with drug dealing on their doorstep.'Undercover detectives followed the dealers with miniature cameras to gather evidence, capturing sickening footage of them peddling heroin and crack cocaine in parks and children's playgrounds. DCI Walton added: 'We achieved a 100 per cent success rate with every one of our targets arrested and put before the courts.'The evidence we'd secured against them was so strong that they all pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.'The mobile phones we seized from drug supply ring leaders showed they were taking up to 650 calls in 24 hours and carrying out £8,000 worth of "business" in a day. 'These people have been taken off the streets and jailed for many years and now they've been "outed" as drug dealers we'll be able to offender manage them closely in future. 'Operation No Deal has fundamentally improved areas of Birmingham that had been blighted by drugs. Local residents are telling us they feel safer and more comfortable in their communities.'
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