Vehicles seized, dangerous drivers and suspected drug dealers caught in Halifax police operation

Operation Henbourne was set up to tackle the priorities in the Park Wad.

These include tackling anti social behaviour, drug dealing and dangerous driving.

The operation, run by the Halifax Neighbourhood Policing Team, is conducted in addition to day to day duties and has already seen promising results.

During 15 hours of operational hours Op Henbourne had the following results;

23 x Stop searches under the Misuse of Drugs Act

3 x Cautions for Possession of Cannabis

2 x Vehicle seizures for no insurance

1 x Vehicle seized on cloned plates

2 x Vehicles failing to stop (enquiries ongoing)

2 x Dangerous driving (enquiries ongoing)

2 x Careless driving

3 x S59 warnings - vehicles driving in an anti-social manner

1 x arrest for Possession with Intent to Supply

In addition to this, a number of vehicles have been stopped and documents checked leading to a number of tickets being issued for various offences.

Confrontation and disruption visits have also been conducted at addresses linked to people who are suspected to be involved in the supply of drugs.

PC 1969 Clough who set up the Operation said: "The Operation was created to tackle the issues within the community, we collated a lot of information together to ensure we targeted the right areas of concern by pulling together incident logs of where the most ASB was reported as well as locations of drug dealing and current vehicles being used.

"We continue to update our briefing for this Operation thanks to information supplied by the public relating to areas where issues arise as well as knowledge from the local PCSOs.

"We have had fantastic results and we will continue to run this Operation to target concerns raised by the community."

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