Hythe home raided and New Forest car park group searched in police drugs crackdown

A POLICE crackdown on drug-related activity involved a raid on a Hythe home and a search of a group at a New Forest car park.

Officers searched an address in Cheviot Drive on Friday evening, which resulted in a small quantity of suspected class C prescribed substances being seized.

Patrols across the Waterside area that night then led to two police officers and a PCSO stop a group of around eight in a Forest car park near Blackfield.

Some of the group were drinking and smoking cannabis, and various members were stopped and searched. Two searches resulted in cannabis being found.

A Facebook post by local officers afterwards said the individuals concerned would be “dealt with in due course” and the group was told to get a taxi home.

The post emphasised the dangers that such incidents could pose to the public.

It said: “We appreciate this is not the most serious of crimes in comparison to others, however, we enforce the law when we come across offences, and low-level offences will get dealt with as reasonably and proportionately as possible.

“Our main concerns is that the group were in an isolated Forest car park, and the temptation for them to drink and drug-drive home from that location is convenient for them, but this puts everyone else at risk.”