{"id":14888,"date":"2017-01-27T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=14888"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:16:37","slug":"riverside-locals-say-they-want-action-against-drug-dealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/riverside-locals-say-they-want-action-against-drug-dealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverside locals say they want action against drug dealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People living in Riverside say they want police to clamp down on drug use and dealing in the area with some saying they don&#8217;t feel safe walking around the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Councillor for Riverside, Iona Gordon, says &#8220;there are increasing concerns about the visibility of drug use, whether it&#8217;s dealers or people gathering on street corners and being noisy. People have been seen going into phone boxes to inject drugs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14934\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14934\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14934\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3380-163x122.jpg\" alt=\"A phone booth in Riverside\" width=\"251\" height=\"188\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A phone booth in Riverside<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Plaid Cymru Candidate for Riverside, Xose Alvarez says his neighbours have complained about\u00a0drug dealing around\u00a0Tudor Street and Plantagenet Street. Mr. Alvarez says\u00a0&#8220;many locals have reported it repeatedly to the police but they don&#8217;t feel like there&#8217;s been any progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People living in the Edinburgh Court council estate say they regularly see young people taking drugs in the stairwells.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14938\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14938\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14938\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3374-163x122.jpg\" alt=\"The council estate Edinburgh Court on Wyndham Place\" width=\"248\" height=\"186\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The council estate Edinburgh Court on Wyndham Place<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Georgina Sammut, 70, lives in Edinburgh Court. She says South Wales Police have tried to tackle the problem by installing a camera in one of the stairwells of Edinburgh Court. She says &#8220;the police are doing their best to improve the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14937\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14937\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14937\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3322-163x122.jpg\" alt=\"Georgina Sammut says she regularly sees drug use\" width=\"255\" height=\"191\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgina Sammut says she regularly sees drug use<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a statement, South Wales Police said &#8220;drug dealing has a devastating impact upon communities and it won&#8217;t be tolerated. Wherever possible we will use the information that we get from the public and take action with the aim of putting drug dealers out of business and before the courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living in Riverside say they want police to clamp down on drug use and dealing in the area with some saying they don&#8217;t feel safe walking around the neighbourhood. Labour Councillor for Riverside, Iona Gordon, says &#8220;there are increasing concerns about the visibility of drug use, whether it&#8217;s dealers or people gathering on street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[26,1011,150,724,777,1010,704,1012,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14888"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15012,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions\/15012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}