Ord Road shop keeper said last night.

But he added Operation Cleansweep would not deter him or other residents in the area from putting up surveillance cameras to monitor drug transactions.

Lines Food and Liquor owner Richard Powell said: "The street has been really quiet. It's actually quite nice.'' Mr. Powell said normally there was a group of people who occupied the side of the road some 50 yards from his store.

"Usually there are three to 12 dealers out there, but on Thursday half of them were missing and on Friday there was nobody there at all. It's been like that since.'' He added he had also received quite a bit of amusement after three years of problems.

"There has been quite a lot of rubbernecking. There are people driving up and down Ord Road looking for the drug dealers. Some of them are even looking in the trees trying to find them.'' Last month, Ord Road residents held a meeting to discuss the problem of drug dealers in their community.

Yesterday Premier Pamela Gordon -- who attended the meeting with Police Commissioner Colin Coxall -- said: "The Commissioner and I were at a meeting of concerned residents of Warwick. The degree of the frustration over these gangs of youths who were openly selling drugs on the streets was obvious.

"We would have liked to have been able to tell those at the meeting that something was being done, but that was not possible.'' At that meeting Mr. Powell announced he had video cameras which he wanted to mount on Ord Road, so he could videotape people buying drugs and give the tapes showing the buyers' licence plates to Police.

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