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Police raid east London venue 93 Feet East
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 11 December 2012
East London nightclub and live venue 93 Feet East was raided on Friday night as part of a 48 hour operation by the capital’s police to crackdown on crimes related to venue licensing. Operation Condor, which was launched in February, saw police officers visit premises across London between 8am on Friday and 8am on Sunday, with 297 arrests in total on a variety of charges.
Involving 175 police officers, a helicopter and several police dogs, the raid on 93 Feet East was the biggest of the operation, taking place just after 10pm on Friday night. Police arrested five people on suspicion of possessing Class A drugs, two people were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of drugs, one for being drunk and disorderly and one on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant. An additional arrest was made against another individual for “being the owner/occupier of premises being concerned in the supply drugs”.
Met Police Commander Mak Chishty, who led the operation, said: “Yet again we have seen Operation Condor bring in excellent results from our concerted efforts involving thousands of officers being deployed all over London over the past two days. Licensing impacts upon everyday community life – in our shops and supermarkets this means people do not sell knives, harmful substances or alcohol to young people; in our pubs and clubs it means that alcohol is sold and consumed in a responsible way, on our roads it means that vehicles, such as taxis, are properly licensed and safe”.
He added: “These are just some examples of how licensing affects all of our daily activities, and we will continue to commit resources to this and work extremely hard with our partners to tackle these areas in the future”.
Although shut down on Friday evening, 93 Feet East was seemingly back up and running again on Saturday, and continues to operate as normal.
Watch footage of the raid here:
