70 people searched in drug operation

10:00am Wednesday 6th March 2013 in News By Kimberly Middleton, Acting chief reporter

70 people searched in drug operation 70 people searched in drug operation

A two day drugs bust at Hastings and St Leonards train stations saw 70 people searched.

Passive drug dog Olly sniffed out the scent of drugs on people arriving by train into the two towns on February 28 and March 1.

The joint operation, code-named Harman, was done by Hastings police and British Transport Police.

Local PCSOs were on board the trains to explain what was happening to members of the public.

Of the 70 people stopped 14 were dealt with for possession of controlled substances, and were given street warnings for possession of cannabis or were fined.

 

Sergeant Simon Yates from Hastings neighbourhood policing team said: "Operation Harman was well executed and reinforces the message that drugs will not be tolerated on our streets.

"Due to its success we will be doing this again in the near future.

"Olly, the passive drug dog was fantastic and is an asset to the service."

Comments(12)

B rian Tawses left foot says...
10:42am Wed 6 Mar 13

An utterly fatuous waste of police time - still beats solving real crimes I suppose.

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Surely not! says...
11:03am Wed 6 Mar 13

meanwhile several vanloads of hard drugs were dropped off at local dealers...

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free-man says...
11:09am Wed 6 Mar 13

So 80 per cent of people stopped and searched were completely innocent, clever dog.

How many people went past the dogs on the day 1000, 10,000?, and they mange to catch probably 14 stoners, well done guys.

How much did that cost?

Also clever little tactic with the PCSO's giving the game away on the train! lol

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AmboGuy says...
12:41pm Wed 6 Mar 13

Yaaaawnnn

The usual police hating trolls commenting again I see.

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Fight_Back says...
12:41pm Wed 6 Mar 13

And yet when you phone Sussex Police to report anti-social behaviour in residential areas they never have officers available. Instead they decide to target a few people with a bit of puff doing no harm to anyone but themselves ( possibly ).

Complete waste of police resources. Kind of shows how pointless the police commissioner idea really is.

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Valerie Paynter says...
12:46pm Wed 6 Mar 13

56 of those 70 people were unjustifiably searched. I am appalled. How upsetting for them.

Reminds me of the time I was languishing, very,very ill, in the acute medical ward of the RSCH attached to A & E (June 2011) when, in the dark of night, I was forced to turn out my bag for inspection and logging of contents. I was barely conscious and the memory of being treated like that does not make me feel safe about A&E frankly.

It was bullying of a perfectly innocent and deeply ill patient and I see what the police did on that train as being a kindred kind of attitude and action.

What kind of a state is this becoming?

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jimbobmaginty says...
12:54pm Wed 6 Mar 13

“Errrm we need to boost out numbers”? “How do we do that” said PC Plod? “ Let’s search people as they get of the trains” said PC thicko!
Do some real crime investigating you hunch of timewasters!

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AmboGuy says...
6:34pm Wed 6 Mar 13

I agree its disgusting seeing the police actually catching people breaking the law.

I'm not sure why so many people are upset by this.

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theleftygiraffe says...
7:37pm Wed 6 Mar 13

AmboGuy wrote:
I agree its disgusting seeing the police actually catching people breaking the law.

I'm not sure why so many people are upset by this.
That's not what's upsetting people - what's upsetting is the large number of people whose privacy was invaded for no reason and what seems like quite a large waste of police resources. To be honest I could probably point out more people smoking/carrying drugs than that, and I don't need to smell them.

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Somethingsarejustwrong says...
9:09am Sun 10 Mar 13

theleftygiraffe wrote:
AmboGuy wrote:
I agree its disgusting seeing the police actually catching people breaking the law.

I'm not sure why so many people are upset by this.
That's not what's upsetting people - what's upsetting is the large number of people whose privacy was invaded for no reason and what seems like quite a large waste of police resources. To be honest I could probably point out more people smoking/carrying drugs than that, and I don't need to smell them.
Keep up the great work catching these left wing, benefit grabbing, squatting types and get them jailed!

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Pikey-Biker says...
7:16pm Tue 12 Mar 13

theleftygiraffe wrote:
AmboGuy wrote:
I agree its disgusting seeing the police actually catching people breaking the law.

I'm not sure why so many people are upset by this.
That's not what's upsetting people - what's upsetting is the large number of people whose privacy was invaded for no reason and what seems like quite a large waste of police resources. To be honest I could probably point out more people smoking/carrying drugs than that, and I don't need to smell them.
Personally I am all for it. Well done to the police, hope you do it again soon

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Pikey-Biker says...
7:18pm Tue 12 Mar 13

jimbobmaginty wrote:
“Errrm we need to boost out numbers”? “How do we do that” said PC Plod? “ Let’s search people as they get of the trains” said PC thicko!
Do some real crime investigating you hunch of timewasters!
haha PC Thicko, said someone who can't spell

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