If you live in Newtown
or the surrounding area, whether you have children or not, this meeting is
aimed at you and concerns the safety and security of Mid Wales residents
Defined by Fearless.Org,
"County Lines is a very serious issue where criminal gangs set
up a drug dealing operation in a place outside their usual operating area.
Gangs will move their drug dealing from big cities (e.g. London,
Manchester, Liverpool etc.) to smaller towns in order to make more
money. This can have a really big effect on the community who live there
and bring with it serious criminal behaviour."
Following a recent
presentation to Powys County Council on County Lines and Cuckooing, Cllr Mark
Barnes (Newtown West and Llanllwchaiarn) has worked with the Council
and the Police to create this free community event to raise this very real and
under-reported issue facing Newtown and its residents.
This essential meeting
for Newtown residents especially, but not exclusively, families will expose
what is going on under our noses and demonstrate how the community can help the
Police drive these gangs from our town.
If you think this is or
isn't taking place in your street or your children aren't exposed to this, then
you need to be at this event so that you can be made more aware.
Residents who attend
will learn more about the issue of County Lines and Cuckooing, how Newtown
Police are addressing the issues and learn what to look out for. Evidence
of these activities are playing out in our streets, cul-de-sacs and closes and
you will leave better equipped to report activity to the Police.
The meeting is free to attend and places can be booked here
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