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UK: Cannabis cafe closed

Sarah Cosgrove

Enfield Independent

Tuesday 14 Jul 2009

A CAFE in Palmers Green has been closed by police after officers found several bags of cannabis there they suspected were for sale.

Bowes Safer Neighbourhood team worked with Enfield Council’s Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Team moved to shut down Kibris, at 39 Green Lanes after receiving persistent complaints about anti-social behaviour there.

On Thursday a drugs team searched the cafe and found the drugs neatly divided into small bags.

The next day the council's ASB team was able to close it down after applying for an order at Enfield Magistrates Court, in Silver Street, Enfield Town.

Now the building has been boarded up for three months and it is an offence for anyone to enter the premises without the permission of police.

Enfield Council’s anti-social behaviour team manager, Steve Hodgson, said the cafe was a “magnet of anti-social behaviour”.

“This is the first closure order than Enfield has successfully applied for under the new legislation that allows us to close premises that cause serious nuisance to the community.”

Now both the council and the police hope to work with the owners of the building to find a new tenant who will run the cafe within the law.

http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/4491175.Cannabis_cafe_closed/

 

 

 

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