Basingstoke’s Priority Crime Team secure partial closure order after reports of drugs use and ASB

Officers from Basingstoke’s Priority Crime Team have secured a partial closure order at an address in Braddock Court.

On Tuesday 7 November, Basingstoke Magistrates Court was presented with evidence of drug-related activity and anti-social behaviour at the address.

The closure order was granted and it now means that no-one other than those authorised on the court order will be allowed to enter or remain at the address for the next three months.

If they do, they will be committing a criminal offence and can be arrested.

The order was obtained following partnership work with our officers, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Vivid.

Basingstoke Police Sergeant Karla Leese, from the Priority Crime Team, said: “Our officers have taken these steps after receiving reports of drug use and anti-social behaviour at an address in Basingstoke.

“The activities of those living and visiting the address have had an enormous impact on local residents, causing untold misery.

“We would like to thank the local community for their help and patience while we worked with our partners to gather the evidence needed to secure this order.

“These types of closures are never a step which is taken lightly. Yet in instances like these, we will do all we can to stop anti-social behaviour and drug use and the enormous impact it creates.”