Updated: Suspects charged after massive drugs bust (From Echo)

A total of 35 new drug dealers will soon be available, after a police crackdown in Southend

Hope they all get sent down for a long time.

Whats the point.??? they will all be out on bail, with a slap on the wrist, to start dealing again.!!!!

This has now become a common culture which is tragic - socially it is not unusual for teenagers across the town, even those still at school will pick up their weekend stash. Parents are helpless to stop this as their children regard this practice as similar as to going to the off-licence!

For every one arrested and convicted, two will take their place. It's no good treating the symptoms unless you remove the reason for the infection in the first place.

what may be more impressive is if the police stopped the problem at source rather than just at dealers level as the source is still there and no doubt there are those already in place to take the place of those arrested this morning.

Well done the Police.
Same time next week, same again.

Nebs wrote:
Well done the Police.
Same time next week, same again.

What do you expect the police to do??

Yeah same time next week, next month, next year. It just moves around. There aren't enough police to sort all this out perhaps they should stop giving innocent people tickets and pull their fingers out and sought out real crime??
If the echo are going to report this nonsense then tell us where these raids were so we all know.

Nazzarooney wrote:

Nebs wrote:
Well done the Police.
Same time next week, same again.

What do you expect the police to do??

Yeah same time next week, next month, next year. It just moves around. There aren't enough police to sort all this out perhaps they should stop giving innocent people tickets and pull their fingers out and sought out real crime??
If the echo are going to report this nonsense then tell us where these raids were so we all know.

They have sought out real crime, and they have found it in the shape of drug dealers, and are trying to sort it out. There aren't enough police to do lots of things, but that doesn't mean they should just give up. Keep the pressure on the dealers.
If the courts and prisons could cope with more drug dealers then maybe the police would be able to get on top of it, but too many dealers seem to go to court and then go home, rather than go to court and then go to prison. It must be very difficult for the police when you bring all these drug dealers to book, only for the courts to send them back out onto the streets to continue to peddle their wares.

The Police cant stop the problem at the source because they (and customs)are the ones on the take, letting the drugs in!!!
Does anyone else actually live in the real world?

BUM-GRAVY wrote:
The Police cant stop the problem at the source because they (and customs)are the ones on the take, letting the drugs in!!! Does anyone else actually live in the real world?

if I was living in a make believe one I'd make sure it was a flipping sight warmer today...

;-)

yet more drug peddling scum bags off the streets.. swagger around town in your polyester chavwear dishing out kid killing drugs and stupefying substances (keep Britain stupid) while avoiding the consequences of your actions and making guns and knives look cool to an already violent youth ' the future drug dealing fuc;wits' if they like money so much allow me to apply a money based analogy, your rectum may be the size of a five pence piece before B wing attend to it, but after it will be the size of a two pound coin with the rigidity of a knackered five pound note!! enjoy your time at her majesties (or your cell mates) pleasure....

BUM-GRAVY wrote:
The Police cant stop the problem at the source because they (and customs)are the ones on the take, letting the drugs in!!! Does anyone else actually live in the real world?

This is the most offensive lame brain comment on here, and there are a few. I know Customs officers and Police officers and they are all as honest as the day is long, this country doesn't suffer corruption like most. The trouble is the amounts coming in are huge and they can't find it all. If they didn't have to waste their time looking for cannabis, which should be legal, they could spend a lot more time dealing with the worst drugs and real criminals like muggers and violent crime. And I hear this gripe from the Police and Customs officers too.

I read on an Echo board outside a newsagents "35 arrested by police in drugs raid. At the bottom it said 42 jobs inside... did that mean that the recruitment process to replace the 35 plus another 7 is already underway? ;)

Excitation wrote:

BUM-GRAVY wrote:
The Police cant stop the problem at the source because they (and customs)are the ones on the take, letting the drugs in!!! Does anyone else actually live in the real world?

This is the most offensive lame brain comment on here, and there are a few. I know Customs officers and Police officers and they are all as honest as the day is long, this country doesn't suffer corruption like most. The trouble is the amounts coming in are huge and they can't find it all. If they didn't have to waste their time looking for cannabis, which should be legal, they could spend a lot more time dealing with the worst drugs and real criminals like muggers and violent crime. And I hear this gripe from the Police and Customs officers too.

i draw issue to you saying cannabis should be made illegal. it causes schizophrenia and other mental illnesses and is also the preserve of scum bags and very easy to locate due to the herbal smell (cat sh;t smell)

i say remove the custodial element of cannabis dealing.

£5000 fine and destruction of crops for dealing. failure to pay then results in prison time.

£700 fine for possession.

that way the scum bags have to pay through there own pocket for there door to be smashed in + pay the police to smash in a few more..

jayman wrote:

Excitation wrote:

BUM-GRAVY wrote: The Police cant stop the problem at the source because they (and customs)are the ones on the take, letting the drugs in!!! Does anyone else actually live in the real world?

This is the most offensive lame brain comment on here, and there are a few. I know Customs officers and Police officers and they are all as honest as the day is long, this country doesn't suffer corruption like most. The trouble is the amounts coming in are huge and they can't find it all. If they didn't have to waste their time looking for cannabis, which should be legal, they could spend a lot more time dealing with the worst drugs and real criminals like muggers and violent crime. And I hear this gripe from the Police and Customs officers too.

i draw issue to you saying cannabis should be made illegal. it causes schizophrenia and other mental illnesses and is also the preserve of scum bags and very easy to locate due to the herbal smell (cat sh;t smell) i say remove the custodial element of cannabis dealing. £5000 fine and destruction of crops for dealing. failure to pay then results in prison time. £700 fine for possession. that way the scum bags have to pay through there own pocket for there door to be smashed in + pay the police to smash in a few more..

You have just proven that you are the scum bag ignoramus cos you don't know the facts at all - you obviously get your 'facts' from the gutter press. The risk of mental illness caused by cannabis is somewhere between the same level of risk of mental illness as it is for non users - like yourself - and a bit higher for young people. If that wasn't so our hospitals would be full of people with mental health problems caused by cannabis, and they are NOT. The risk from horse riding, glass windows, bees, peanuts, paracetomol and a whole range of other things is a lot higher than any risk from cannabis. Do you want to make horse riding, windows, bees, peanuts and paracetomil illegal too? Thought not. Oh and personally I like the perfumed smell of cannabis, certainly smells better than your ignorance and bigotry.

PS every Policeman I know has told me they think cannabis is no problem at all, cannabis users don't cause any problems unlike alcohol users, and it SHOULD BE LEGAL! The only thing stopping decriminalisation is stupid biased old muppets like you. Thank goodness you'll all be dead and gone soon then we'll see a bit more common sense in our drug laws. Look at what has happened in Switzerland, Portugal and Holland you dozy old moron.

Excitation wrote:

jayman wrote:

Excitation wrote:

BUM-GRAVY wrote: The Police cant stop the problem at the source because they (and customs)are the ones on the take, letting the drugs in!!! Does anyone else actually live in the real world?

This is the most offensive lame brain comment on here, and there are a few. I know Customs officers and Police officers and they are all as honest as the day is long, this country doesn't suffer corruption like most. The trouble is the amounts coming in are huge and they can't find it all. If they didn't have to waste their time looking for cannabis, which should be legal, they could spend a lot more time dealing with the worst drugs and real criminals like muggers and violent crime. And I hear this gripe from the Police and Customs officers too.

i draw issue to you saying cannabis should be made illegal. it causes schizophrenia and other mental illnesses and is also the preserve of scum bags and very easy to locate due to the herbal smell (cat sh;t smell) i say remove the custodial element of cannabis dealing. £5000 fine and destruction of crops for dealing. failure to pay then results in prison time. £700 fine for possession. that way the scum bags have to pay through there own pocket for there door to be smashed in + pay the police to smash in a few more..

You have just proven that you are the scum bag ignoramus cos you don't know the facts at all - you obviously get your 'facts' from the gutter press. The risk of mental illness caused by cannabis is somewhere between the same level of risk of mental illness as it is for non users - like yourself - and a bit higher for young people. If that wasn't so our hospitals would be full of people with mental health problems caused by cannabis, and they are NOT. The risk from horse riding, glass windows, bees, peanuts, paracetomol and a whole range of other things is a lot higher than any risk from cannabis. Do you want to make horse riding, windows, bees, peanuts and paracetomil illegal too? Thought not. Oh and personally I like the perfumed smell of cannabis, certainly smells better than your ignorance and bigotry.

actually, I haven't said this on here yet. but i work two shifts a week in adult mental health at an eight bed rehab unit. most service users in mental health units across the UK have a deep history of drug abuse that stems from cannabis. it is absolutely irresponsible for anyone to provide anecdotal evidence or un-scientific (convenient) university of the internet research supporting the inaccurate assumption that you are somehow more socially just then the skag head in the ally way jacking up on a dirty syringe.. you are scum if you use drugs.. its the same criminal gangs push prostitutes and drug mules and its the same gangs that will grow cannabis using a bypassed electric meter and a illegally converted family home into an insulated hydroponics bay. if you smoke cannabis you are to be shunned as an utter, utter d;ck who will eventually verbally respond to hallucinations because you have fried your a cerebrum (higher brain functions) and socio/emotional centres with mood altering synaptic inhibiter's. if you have ever had whats called a 'freak out' due to cannabis use then that is a sign that damage is already done to some degree!!.. you see. real science.. please now provide a link to tin pot american research that has already been laughed at and dismissed by legitimate researchers.. at a push you could always mention Jah and the whole head shop franchise, but everyone knows that's just a load of old bo11ocks that drags an area down even further..

jayman wrote:

Excitation wrote:

jayman wrote:

Excitation wrote:

BUM-GRAVY wrote: The Police cant stop the problem at the source because they (and customs)are the ones on the take, letting the drugs in!!! Does anyone else actually live in the real world?

This is the most offensive lame brain comment on here, and there are a few. I know Customs officers and Police officers and they are all as honest as the day is long, this country doesn't suffer corruption like most. The trouble is the amounts coming in are huge and they can't find it all. If they didn't have to waste their time looking for cannabis, which should be legal, they could spend a lot more time dealing with the worst drugs and real criminals like muggers and violent crime. And I hear this gripe from the Police and Customs officers too.

i draw issue to you saying cannabis should be made illegal. it causes schizophrenia and other mental illnesses and is also the preserve of scum bags and very easy to locate due to the herbal smell (cat sh;t smell) i say remove the custodial element of cannabis dealing. £5000 fine and destruction of crops for dealing. failure to pay then results in prison time. £700 fine for possession. that way the scum bags have to pay through there own pocket for there door to be smashed in + pay the police to smash in a few more..

You have just proven that you are the scum bag ignoramus cos you don't know the facts at all - you obviously get your 'facts' from the gutter press. The risk of mental illness caused by cannabis is somewhere between the same level of risk of mental illness as it is for non users - like yourself - and a bit higher for young people. If that wasn't so our hospitals would be full of people with mental health problems caused by cannabis, and they are NOT. The risk from horse riding, glass windows, bees, peanuts, paracetomol and a whole range of other things is a lot higher than any risk from cannabis. Do you want to make horse riding, windows, bees, peanuts and paracetomil illegal too? Thought not. Oh and personally I like the perfumed smell of cannabis, certainly smells better than your ignorance and bigotry.

actually, I haven't said this on here yet. but i work two shifts a week in adult mental health at an eight bed rehab unit. most service users in mental health units across the UK have a deep history of drug abuse that stems from cannabis. it is absolutely irresponsible for anyone to provide anecdotal evidence or un-scientific (convenient) university of the internet research supporting the inaccurate assumption that you are somehow more socially just then the skag head in the ally way jacking up on a dirty syringe.. you are scum if you use drugs.. its the same criminal gangs push prostitutes and drug mules and its the same gangs that will grow cannabis using a bypassed electric meter and a illegally converted family home into an insulated hydroponics bay. if you smoke cannabis you are to be shunned as an utter, utter d;ck who will eventually verbally respond to hallucinations because you have fried your a cerebrum (higher brain functions) and socio/emotional centres with mood altering synaptic inhibiter's. if you have ever had whats called a 'freak out' due to cannabis use then that is a sign that damage is already done to some degree!!.. you see. real science.. please now provide a link to tin pot american research that has already been laughed at and dismissed by legitimate researchers.. at a push you could always mention Jah and the whole head shop franchise, but everyone knows that's just a load of old bo11ocks that drags an area down even further..

Ho ho! No point trying to convince you is there? You've seen some bad things about cannabis in your narrow little world and you think you know it all, a bit like your assumptions about me (didn't your Mum ever tell you assumption is the mother of all c*ck ups?), actually I am VERY science orientated (not saying how much cos you'll only argue about it). I also have several high status medicos in my circle of family and friends. In addition to this all of my friends have had almost fifty years experience of this subject and some things are very clear, firstly, all of the things I mentioned above - from horse riding to paracetomol - are a lot more dangerous than cannabis, and out of all the recreational drugs cannabis is by far the least harmful. If you try and deny that you have no brains. And before you bleat on about why anyone should use drugs (just before you have your caffeine booster and pop down the pub for a pint) it is part of the human condition, people all over the world use something, from rain forest indians to city execs. Statistically something like a third to a half of the people in this country have tried cannabis at some time (do the sums yourself) with seven to ten million using it regularly right now. That makes it one of the most popular things people do and if it was so dangerous we would see an awful lot more cannabis casualties than we do. Try removing your blinkers and do some proper research.

Forgot to add that no-one is denying that cannabis can have harmful effects on some people but the science tells us that it is the young to mid teens who are the most at risk. If it was decriminalised we would have some control over the age of users whereas as things are all they need is a ten pound note. Try looking at what is happening in Holland, Portugal and Switzerland right now, less young users, less hard drug use etc. Your hang 'em flog 'em philosophy has been tried for fifty years and it doesn't work, prohibition will never work, so it's time to be more realistic.