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Pub ordered to install CCTV cameras
6:48pm Wednesday 19th March 2008
Comments (12)A pub landlord has been told to install security cameras to combat what police say is a severe drugs problem - or face being closed down.
Police said the licence at the Wheatsheaf, in Wantage Road, Didcot, should be reviewed by South Oxfordshire District Council after reports of drugs and drug dealers on the premises.
In a notice of review, police officers said: "Following the receipt of several intelligence reports detailing that the premises concerned may have a severe drugs problem, Thames Valley Police carried out a number of operations to establish the severity of the problem."
Police said the results of the operations were a "cause for concern".
The council ordered the pub to put in cameras within three months or risk having its licence revoked.
It also said posters promoting the pub's zero tolerance policy to drug-taking should be displayed, and flat surfaces in the toilets removed.
But the move has frustrated some regulars.
Tony Anchors, 58, of Drake Avenue, Didcot, said: "The silly thing is people take drugs in the toilets and they can't put CCTV there. The world has gone mad, it has got worse and worse."
Tony Cope, licensing officer for Thames Valley Police, said officers would be closely monitoring the CCTV images over the next few months.
The pub's licence was not removed or suspended because of assurances by the company that runs it, Powerton, that it was trying to combat the problem and had removed the previous landlord.
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Tarbatt, says...
9:26pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Terry Chandler wrote:That's it, the coppers want to watch our every move.
Police state.
DanOxford, says...
11:18pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Mr Ison, England says...
11:54pm Wed 19 Mar 08
alan page, says...
12:26am Thu 20 Mar 08
"Oh haven't the police got better things to do?" "Do you know who I am?" etc etc.
I think the police should be supporting the landlord in his efforts to keep his liscence. If the criminals don't like they can stay at home and dunk their heads into a bucket of drugs.
Like smokers have to.
alan page, says...
12:30am Thu 20 Mar 08
DanOxford wrote:They could always move couldn't they?
Removing one of the few ways to make people forget they live in Didcot seems like cruelty to me...
You know DO SOMETHING to improve their situations.
alan page, says...
12:32am Thu 20 Mar 08
Mr Ison wrote:On the same day they take a "rational response" to child pornography.
One day parliament may debate the issue in an adult manner,that day is not today however.
Never!!
Mr Ison, England says...
4:08am Thu 20 Mar 08
For cultivation of Cannabis there can be no good reason for not growing it on the windowsill,in the windowbox,in the greenhouse or in the garden.
Think of brewing wine and beer,think fruit and vegetables and then think i thought pottering about the garden tending to my flower beds and herbaceous borders first!
DanOxofrd, says...
11:07am Thu 20 Mar 08
You're boring Alan, communism didn't work. Get over the chip on your shoulder about 'the middle class' and your own family issues with drugs and stop commenting on a city you don't live in.
alan page, says...
11:21am Thu 20 Mar 08
For years, they have been accusing the Left of promoting drug abuse whilst blowing it out of their own arses.
Now that it has been shown that the urge to legalise narcotics
is down to profiteering by businessmen rat than in the ethical service of humanity, there can now be a split made.
As to child pornography, even the most simple minded freak can tell the ethical difference between the downloading of professionally posed photos of naked children and a)hard core pictures of children being raped and b)raping children.
The argument is just as about personal freedom and civil liberties as the cannabis one.
Personally, given the fact that the users above have been jabbering on about moslems and jews in a highly irrational,paranoid way, it is little wonder that cannabis is iilegal, and like child pornography of the 1st class mentioned above, should remain so.
alan page, says...
2:16pm Thu 20 Mar 08
DanOxofrd wrote:Odd that Communism didn't work though given that it was a Rational Atheist system that denied the possibility of any transcendence.
Once again, Alan Page uses the news site of a city he doesn't live in to sneer at the locals with his dated marxist tosh. You're boring Alan, communism didn't work. Get over the chip on your shoulder about 'the middle class' and your own family issues with drugs and stop commenting on a city you don't live in.
I do hope that those who have lost friends and families to drugs will take on board your "get over it" attitude.
It sums you up perfectly.
Andy, Cornwall says...
9:11am Tue 8 Apr 08
ess/residential cameras, chances are that your actions are caught on camera somewhere. This pub is a hive of sub-human scum and the police are asking the pub to sort themselves out. If you have a problem with that then I doubt your use to modern society.
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Terry Chandler, Oxford says...
8:48pm Wed 19 Mar 08