Why do UK Pub companies let drug dealers operate in their pubs?

Question

Is it a form of marketing or is it they cant be bothered? Anyone who goes out know pubs where you can score drugs, so why do pub companies allow this to go one?

Since pub companies are selling drugs themselves (alcohol), why let another drug dealer on there patch selling coke, heroin, etc, unless they see it as attracting more customers so they can sell more alcohol.

Yoyoknickers - so why do so many landlords/landlady turn a blind eye?

trust me you can always spot them. For example 2 people in a toilet cubicle, people regularly coming in having 1 drink then leaving, people sitting in a corner without no visible means of financial support, doormen letting certain faces in, etc the list is endless.

Answer 1

it's v. good money and they're naughty people

Answer 2

I work for a brewery and I don't know anyone who "lets" drug dealers operate in their pubs. But it sometimes can be hard to stop if its going on in the toilets etc, drug dealers are so crafty and they can nearly always get away with it without the staff noticing, especially if its a busy night and the pub's packed, its so easy for small packets to change hands without anyone seeing it. Whenever we have spotted anything like that going on we have informed the poilce and banned the people in question but they always find another way around it, these people are career criminals!!

EDIT: The way they sometimes do it in toilet cubicles is the dealer goes in and puts the drugs in the cistern or in the toilet roll holder and then tells the buyer what he's done, the buyer goes in and retrieves the drugs and either leaves the money in the cistern or hands it to the dealer. So you don't see two people in the cubicle, you just see two sepearet people going to the toilet at the same time or just after each other which is really common in pubs when everyone's drinking loads!! This was how they were doing it in one of our pubs and we only found out because one of the staff went to the toilet and something strange fell out of the bottom of the toilet roll holder - it was a packet of coke! The dealer must have slipped up there! He had fled by the time the police arrived.

Answer 3

You ever been in a pub around a council estate area? well if you have you'll no why if not then you ain't never gonna understand and will just have a stereotypical view on the subject.
the people who sell drugs are usually not very nice people and confronting them can sometimes cause nasty repurcussions. even with police involvement they can't always be stopped. a pub is a landlords home and causing rifts with these drug dealer can put your home, business and maybe even life at risk. sometimes its just better to turn a blind eye at the dealing and concentrate with running the business and making money. if you have dealers comin causing trouble in your pub if ain't exactly good for business. i'm not sayin it ok to sell drugs and that drugs are ok just saying that sometimes its wiser to turn a blind eye.
Some landlords do sell drugs as a sideline for extra income but that is just the select few. If you stop selling drugs in the pub your still gonna get people buying drugs outside and bringin them in.

Answer 4

I think you have this wrong. There are bound to be a few pubs that the landlord may turn a blind eye. No company dare allow drugs to be sold on any of their premises. I was a Director of a nightclub group with a "rave" club in London and we knew that some people would take drugs but anyone caught was ejected and banned for life.

Answer 5

They don't let them. It is hard to control as most of them are very clever at hiding I worked in a night club for years and they are the worse places to find them put it this way when the owner found them selling they were handed over to the police and banned for life if they came back and were selling again the owner found a nice dark corner with no cameras and they where personally introduced to the bouncers fist and drugs flushed They never came back a third time !!!!

Answer 6

you will desire to be 18 to artwork with alcohol and in some pubs that serve in basic terms over 21 twelve months olds you will desire to be a minimum of 21 and you may no longer artwork everywhere in uk till you're sixteen and characteristic your national insurance form/card, you may in basic terms get a paper around or babysit.

Answer 7

was you dropped on your head as a baby or something? as someone who works for a brewery and runs a pub you don't choose to let drugs pubs operate a zero tolerance on drugs so i really don't know where you have been hanging out but it doesnt sound too good

Answer 8

Coz they don't want the negative publicity or attention (especially if its a family pub) Its all about image these days...think about it....they'll get in alot of trouble if the cops got involved....so they might think why risk it? Easy life....for them.
Oh n like sam said, it pays.

Answer 9

some dodgy landlords are in with the dealers and take a percentage, others are scared of the dealers so dont do anything and hope it goes away

Answer 10

Cos you get a screwdriver in the face if you tell em to rack off!