{"id":305974,"date":"2025-07-31T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305974\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:03:14","slug":"birminghams-hagley-road-drug-dealing-is-rife-and-police-have-lost-the-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305974\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham&#8217;s Hagley Road: &#8216;Drug-dealing is rife and police have lost the plot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers point to months of enforcement over a larger part of Edgbaston, even if some residents weren&#8217;t aware.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In June, Operation Skybridge saw 24 arrests for offences including robbery, drug offences, and vehicle crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a perception locally that prostitution is becoming more common.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ladywood community CCTV footage appears to shows sex workers heading out onto Hagley Road, often accompanied by groups of men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over three decades, one of Birmingham&#8217;s busiest thoroughfares has seen sporadic efforts to crackdown on prostitution by local authorities and the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2013, Operation Scarlet was hailed as being a successful scheme, one that was less about prosecution and more about signposting sex workers to sexual health  services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was fundamentally about ensuring the safety of the women, who were often being coerced onto the streets to fuel the local drug trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers point to months of enforcement over a larger part of Edgbaston, even if some residents weren&#8217;t aware.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-305974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114946572718894232","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}