A drug dealer lives behind my house

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My house backs onto an alleyway and on the other side of the alleyway are the back of some flats from the next road over.

Bottom floor flat, definite drug dealing going on. All through lockdown they’ve had various people knocking on their back door throughout the day, they don’t go in they just stand there speaking a few moments and then they leave. One day someone tried to kick the door in, their upstairs neighbour shouted that she was going to call the police and then the guy doing the kicking left.

There have been a number of late night rows, never in the flat, always in the alleyway, shouting and slamming the door.
Every day at various times we can smell someone smoking weed, it wafts into the house.
I’m not a nosy neighbour at all and it’s only the past few weeks, with the warmer weather we have the back door open during the day and the bedroom window open at night, that we’ve noticed anything at all.

What would you do, if anything?
Should I report this?

The police?

Report anonymously.

I wouldn't do anything. Wouldn't bother me.

You can report but prepare for absolutely nothing to be done. Stay anonymous too.

I suspect the address is well known to the police!

Phone them if you want just don't expect a 'Sweeney' response. They may send someone round, one rainy Wednesday afternoon if it is quiet.

I would, and I have and even if the police don't immediately swoop in, it will be noted and eventually they'll get them and move them on.

People like that don't stick around for ever, scum like that have to keep moving.

Report anonymously or you may be called as a witness.

Nothing will be done. I can guarantee that. The police give zero fucks about low level dealing especially weed. Been there and done that and nothing ever got done.

Report it through 101.
Each time you report it creates an incident. The Police require these 'incidents' in order to complete warrants.
As previously said the address/occupants will most likely already be known to police.
They or visitors may be wanted?
Report through as much as you can as often as you can.
It may look like nothings happening initially but it will be behind the scenes.
Also the property might be Council or Housing Association? Obviously the activity is a breach of tenancy.
Again reports can lead to evictions.

Unfortunately if you don't speak up nothing will be done.

I have a similar situation. Sadly, nothing will be done. There was a violent situation involving rivals and forced entry and still nothing was done. I think the police prefer to leave well alone.

I live in a block with a drug dealer. I've reported more times than I can count. Nothing is done.

Report on 101 or Crimestoppers. It may appear nothing is being done, but sometimes different strands need to be pulled together to be able to gather enough evidence to raid multiple properties at the same time or to catch the "big boys" in the drug-dealing world.

If the property is rented, you can also report the activity to the council/ housing association or the landlord/ agent if privately rented.

I wouldn't it's not worth the potential bother tbh. Unless you have addicts passed out on your doorstep. And from what you it's someone selling a bit of weed. Not very cleverly...

report to 101. Also try to find the landlord - if isn't a council place, look it up on rightmove as that will give you the agent if there is one.

druggie scum wreck places and lives - the violence and disturbance will get worse. Be aware that the landlord cannot currently start any eviction proceedings, and there will be a huge backlog.

there is little that the police can do as it is on a private property, and the dealer knows this.

everyone who buys illegal drugs directly supports this kind of thing - violence, knife crime, cuckooing, county lines and even the occasional posh white person that overdoes it at at a festival. All illegal drug buyers are scum.

100% report. Despite what people seem to think, drug dealing is a serious crime.

All illegal drug buyers are scum.

You sure?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44510224

Try a different approach... the landlord, assume he's a tenant, you can trace the flat owner for a small fee with the land registry. Some landlords are decent plus he might want an excuse to evict him. I think even under lockdown evictions are still ok for illegal activity