best way to get the police to deal with drug dealing?

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We have started having regular drug dealing happening on a corner outside to my house - it's really obvious, they don't try to hide it and it's happening more and more frequently. Always different people, it just seems that near my house has become the place to meet.

We've also been seeing a certain car parked outside, with a girl coming out to meet the men inside and then leaving again - again, it's obvious what is going on and is happening all the time.

I have reported this to the police once but as far as I know nothing has been done. I do have cctv (it's one of those indoor cameras pointed outside) which catches it happening, but the quality is so low they wouldn't be able to identify people. I'm also really wary of giving them CCTV incase anything gets linked back to me.

Does anyone have any tips? Should I just report every time I see it happening? Has anyone successfully got their local police to do anything?

This was happening not too far from my house and some of the people living closest to where the drug deals were happening contacted a local councillor when the police weren’t interested and it seems to have stopped. My Mum and her friends are now contacting the same councillor as it’s become clear that a resident in their sheltered accommodation complex has given her apartment to her much younger son who’s either a dealer or buying from a dealer from right outside his flat. Once again the police don’t care.

@ZombeaArthur

This was happening not too far from my house and some of the people living closest to where the drug deals were happening contacted a local councillor when the police weren’t interested and it seems to have stopped. My Mum and her friends are now contacting the same councillor as it’s become clear that a resident in their sheltered accommodation complex has given her apartment to her much younger son who’s either a dealer or buying from a dealer from right outside his flat. Once again the police don’t care.

Oh I didn't think of speaking to our councillor! Thank you, I'll do that. So pleased you managed to stop it, it absolutely infuriates me. I've just seen it on my cctv which is what made me post this thread!

That is awful about your mum's neighbour - I can't believe this stuff can happen so openly and they can just get away with it!! Fingers crossed for her the councillor can sort this too

My local police (MET) advise people to keep on and on reporting every time it happens and to make a note of dates, times, number plates and any names you hear.

Then if they have any available police they'll include that spot in their general patrols.

It can take a long long time but the more people who report the better, so it looks like it's affecting more than one household.

If you’re successful then please share your tips! We have drug dealing on a daily basis outside our house and elsewhere on the road. I think it’s mainly because it’s a convenient location with a quick getaway. I’ve reported it to the police multiple times, supplied video and photo evidence and they are not interested.

I’ve made it obvious to them that I’ve seen them as well as taking photos of cars and registrations but they don’t give a shit (the dealers) and are completely blatant about it.

Report it every time you see it. Resources tend to get allocated to wherever the most crime is happening. If you can get your neighbours to report it even better. It may take a while but that is likely to get a response eventually.

Report as many details as you can on Crime stoppers.
We did this relentlessly for a few weeks for my mum, the dealing stopped for a while then restarted but this time the dealers were on mountain bikes! So no way to report details like registration plates.

When you say girl, what sort of age are you referring to? If she's under 18, there's CCE so flag that up to them next time you report it.
Keep a log of everything you see - times, dates, descriptions of vehicles, reg plates, descriptions of people, anything that can be of use in identifying people but never ever put yourself in danger. Report it on 101/email every single time. You should be given a reference number every time you make a report - provide a list of these in each new report you make so they have no excuse not to be aware of the scale of the issue. The police rely heavily on the number of incidents that have occurred, if they don't know about it it won't be dealt with.
It's a ball ache, but the surest way of getting it dealt with.
Also make contact with your neighbourhood officers on email. You should be able to find their details on your force website or they may have a neighbourhood Facebook or Twitter account. In an ideal world the incidents you report will have been flagged up to the neighbourhood team, but sometimes things fall through the gaps.
Good luck.

Thank you all! I'm just going to report it every time I see anything, in both mine and DH's name. Frustratingly I don't think any neighbours would care enough to report but I'll continue to do so and will get in touch with my local councillor too.

A couple moved into the house opposite us two years ago and have openly dealt drugs right outside ever since throughout the day, every day. I reported via 101 multiple times, once they responded and said they would log it as anti social behaviour and nothing has ever been done. I did this on a regular basis for a year and they're still at it. We're planning to move, what else can we do. They're utter scum, they don't care at all if anyone sees them which just goes to show how sure they are they won't face an police action over it. Boils my blood.

OP if you're brave enough send the CCTV in, I have recordings of our lot but it would be totally obvious which house they were from if they were shown them in interview and I don't have a lot of faith in the police to protect me in such circumstances.

OP are you living in my house?

We have the same issue and it’s becoming a joke. We can point out the local drug dealers! The most scary was when I witnessed a fight over unpaid drug money. I just pretended not to see it, walked past my house and well away from it before coming back an hour later. I don’t trust the police to protect my family adequately if they found out it was us reporting it.

I was going to cut down our hedge from the front garden as they seem to use it as a screen (difficult to explain but our boundary hedge/wall doesn’t run to the road, it runs to a path by the road but is completely obscured from view from other houses including my own) but then that gets rid of my privacy too. It’s purely by chance - going out to the bins/craning my neck over the wall when I hear voices - that I realised what was going on!

Maybe erect a racist statue where they are dealing?

I never managed to get anything done about previous neighbours.

@Walesrecommendations

OP if you're brave enough send the CCTV in, I have recordings of our lot but it would be totally obvious which house they were from if they were shown them in interview and I don't have a lot of faith in the police to protect me in such circumstances.

This is exactly my worry! It's so frustrating because I have so much CCTV I've saved which shows it but I don't trust the police enough for it to never get back to me or never be shown to anyone. It's so frustrating

What I am going to do when we finally drive away from here for the last time is put a note through their door telling them everyone can see what they're up to and that I've sent all the evidence of them dealing to the police. I won't have done, but I'll enjoy knowing they'll be shitting it for a few weeks. I think they just think we're all dumb and it looks normal to have umpteen 2 minute 'conversations' leaning into different car windows a day.

My neighbours opposite sell drugs. I wouldn't bother reporting to be honest as it has no effect on my life whatsoever.

Years ago I reported it twice and both times there were raids.

I reported it last year and the police just chatted to her. She was clearly dealing and taking drugs, had a child there, was a prostitute, abducted a teenager, had sex with teenagers, committed benefit fraud and nothing happened!

If it is coming from one house there may be a cuckooing situation. The place will get destroyed . The landlord ( drug dealers don't usually wreck their own properties) needs to know but with the current eviction ban it will be two years before anything happens.

Crime rate in your road will rocket . Mostly they only knife each other but the cuckoo victim and others will probably get beaten or stabbed too.

Anyone who buys illegal drugs directly supports all this.

We had this outside our house in the first lockdown. It was happening multiple times every day with a different car each time. The same teens on scooters would pick up and deliver elsewhere. We reported it numerous times. In the end the police parked a car with ‘police cctv’ in huge letters outside our house. The dealers got the (not so subtle) message and I guess they are now dealing outside someone else’s house.

Dont report to police.

The police will likely screw you over / somehow the dealer might find out it was you. Not worth the risk imo.

(I made the mistake once of reporting a crime. Somehow, the drug using scumbag found out it was me. I strongly suspect the police)

We’ve had this on the estate we used to live on, along with other antisocial behaviour (sometime the big boys would come down from London threatening them with a knifing, threatening to burn the block of flats down). This is in a rural town! Everyone knew who was dealing, including the police and I suspect social services (child living in the house which was the most upsetting aspect) The police don’t care for going after the small time dealers. They are unlikely to do anything other than increase patrols of the area if you’re very lucky.

@Waxonwaxoff0

My neighbours opposite sell drugs. I wouldn't bother reporting to be honest as it has no effect on my life whatsoever.

I agree with this. Unless they're causing some actual antisocial behaviour you're getting your knickers in a twist for no real reason. And the police tacitly accept that going after them is a waste of scarce resources. We've been fighting the "war on drugs" for fifty years with waxing and waning levels of fervour, and it's made no difference whatsoever. It's not going to put an end to dealing and usage any time this side of the great freeze-over of hell!

@FelicityMingington

Unless we took the Singapore approach to dealers and users.

Tell them the dealer misgendered you?

My DD has reported drug dealing repeatedly. Met don’t care. I reported dealing one day in front of all the primary children coming out of school! Nothing. A Lamborghini was seen at a house down the road. Then a police cordon. Someone died. My DD said the ice cream van driver was dealing. Nothing is done unless someone dies!

@FelicityMingington @Waxonwaxoff0 I also agree.

If they’re literally handing the drugs over, taking the payment then leaving I’d have to just let this go and stop getting het up over it.