Cannabis seized during drugs raids on pubs in town centre

THE STREETS of Penzance were filled with police last week when around 20 officers and a sniffer dog swooped on nine pubs in a specialist drugs operation.During the three-hour series of raids on Thursday evening at many of the city centre pubs at Causewayhead, Bread Street and Market Jew Street, officers seized three packs of cannabis from a man and searched two others.The operation was set up to reduce the amount of violent crime and anti-social behaviour after pubs' and clubs' closing times.

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