PSNI to doorstep Rectory drug community within days

SUSPECTED drug dealers in Ballymena's Rectory Estate can expect a knock on the door from the PSNI before the end of this month, the Ballymena Times can reveal.

Acting on concerns aired by community activitists involved in the town’s PACT initiative (Partners and Community Together), local officers will be visiting drugs’ suspects’ in the estate and offering them support services.

Local residents will also be visited by a uniformed neighbourhood police officer and given information on how they can report their suspicions scurely and, if need be, anonymously.