{"id":21063,"date":"2017-11-07T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=21063"},"modified":"2017-11-07T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:45:24","slug":"butetowns-battle-beat-drug-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/11\/07\/butetowns-battle-beat-drug-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Butetown residents plead for more help in drugs battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-24822 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/IMG_20170813_093615-2-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/IMG_20170813_093615-2-1024x673.jpg 1024w, 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https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/IMG_20170813_093615-2-500x329.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/IMG_20170813_093615-2-293x193.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/IMG_20170813_093615-2-1400x921.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/noscript><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>CARDIFF residents have pleaded with police for more to be done to stamp out Butetown&#8217;s long-established illegal drugs problem.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the monthly Police and Communities Together Meeting on Thursday, November 2, Butetown residents described a child picking up a bloody syringe and drug users having sex and bushes near their homes as a toilet.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI chased three of them off the street just the other day,\u201d one resident told police officers.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey know where to go (to take drugs) and they aren\u2019t afraid if you tell them to stop.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One resident told how a young relative picked up a bloodied syringe, unaware of what it was used for, leaving the resident in \u201ccomplete shock\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another resident said he had seen and heard \u201cmultiple sexual acts taking place in overgrown bushes near my house,\u201d and after drug users leave, there is \u201cused drug paraphernalia and every kind of human waste left behind.\u201d <\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21069\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-21069\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21069\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/11\/Drug-incident-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/noscript> A photo sent in by one local resident is alleged to show a man revealing himself in public in order to inject heroin, whilst a group of people walk past.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents said the main problem sites were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Underpasses 1 and 2 next to Lloyd George Avenue<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The top of Atlantic Wharf (near East Bute Dock)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The green space alongside the Cardiff Bay Railway<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Craiglee green space<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Residents believe the drug-taking and anti-social behaviour is tied to homelessness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe city [of Cardiff] is being a very bad neighbour,\u201d said one. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cRather than deal with the problem, homeless people are just moved on from the city centre by police, and because a number of hostels are in the north of Butetown they come here.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grangetown councillor Lynda Thorne, told the meeting: \u201cThere are enough beds for all of Cardiff\u2019s homeless, around 240 beds with 45 emergency spaces, but they of course have to pay to use these hostels.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coun Thorne and some residents praised the work of Butetown officers, saying \u201cthe police are doing an amazing job\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acting Inspector Kevin Jones said: \u201cWe have increased our patrolling hours from 423 to 554 hours over the last month, and there is a high-level drugs operation ongoing.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Acting-Sergeant Jamie Dale was also praised for successfully completing 105 stop and searches in the last month. While police said this was a positive step towards tackling the drug problem, their powers outside of this were \u201climited.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21072\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-21072\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Underpass-at-Lloyd-George-Ave-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"505\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21072\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Underpass-at-Lloyd-George-Ave-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"505\" \/><\/noscript> One of the underpasses to Lloyd George Avenue at night<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Current UK crime statistics show that Butetown is the second worst Cardiff neighbourhood for overall crime, with 73 of 227 incidents in the last recorded month being for drugs and anti-social behaviour. Data from the last 12 months shows similar levels for the ward.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next PACT Meeting for Butetown will take place on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">December 14. Find out the venue nearer the date <a href=\"https:\/\/www.south-wales.police.uk\/en\/neighbourhood\/cardiff\/butetown\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 CARDIFF residents have pleaded with police for more to be done to stamp out Butetown&#8217;s long-established illegal drugs problem. 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