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29/11/2007
Charges Follow Police Drug Raids
Nine people have now been charged with drugs offences after a series of police raids across Northern Ireland. They will appear at Newry Magistrates Court on Friday.
The arrests were made at houses in south-east Antrim, mid-Ulster and Ballymena in a series of co-ordinated, Province-wide raids by the police related to illegal drug supply.
Both uniformed officers and members of the drugs squad were involved in the raids.
The police said it was a pro-active operation against the sale, supply and distribution of class A drugs.
Part of the operation saw the area around the Coach Inn nightclub in Banbridge cordoned off by the PSNI who used specially trained sniffer dogs that were allowed to be unleashed in the popular nightspot to search for traces of drugs.
Just this week, there have been renewed calls for more action, on foot of the recent drug-related deaths of two Ulster teenagers, Dean Clarke and Shane O'Connor.
However, a police spokesman said the new operation was only the "latest and most visible stage in the PSNI's ongoing work against drugs".
(BMcC/JM)
The arrests were made at houses in south-east Antrim, mid-Ulster and Ballymena in a series of co-ordinated, Province-wide raids by the police related to illegal drug supply.
Both uniformed officers and members of the drugs squad were involved in the raids.
The police said it was a pro-active operation against the sale, supply and distribution of class A drugs.
Part of the operation saw the area around the Coach Inn nightclub in Banbridge cordoned off by the PSNI who used specially trained sniffer dogs that were allowed to be unleashed in the popular nightspot to search for traces of drugs.
Just this week, there have been renewed calls for more action, on foot of the recent drug-related deaths of two Ulster teenagers, Dean Clarke and Shane O'Connor.
However, a police spokesman said the new operation was only the "latest and most visible stage in the PSNI's ongoing work against drugs".
(BMcC/JM)
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