The capture of a female drugs trafficker in Dundee Railway Station with £100,000-worth of heroin may well have saved lives, a senior police officer says.
Detective Chief Inspector Colin Gall of Police Scotland’s Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism Unit was commenting on Jennifer Donaldson, 24, being jailed for four years and eight months at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday.
Donaldson, from the Menzieshill area of Dundee, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin at an earlier appearance.
She was arrested on August 7 following an intelligence-led operation by Dundee-based officers from Police Scotland’s OCCTU.
DCS Gall, of the North Command Area, said the actions of his team and the sentence handed out at the High Court sent out a clear message that drug dealing would not be tolerated in Scotland’s communities.
“Drug dealers should know that we will not allow their illegal actions to thrive. They might attempt to profit on the desperation of others and wreak misery in our communities, but we will target them to get both the dealers and their poison out of circulation,” he stated.
“I am delighted that in this case we prevented £100,000-worth of Class A drugs from reaching its intended targets. I am sure that our actions may very well have saved lives in Dundee and elsewhere in Tayside.
“In the time since, the OCCTU and our colleagues throughout Police Scotland have continued to seize significant quantities of drugs and in the process arrest those individuals who seem quite happy to deal in death.
“We will disrupt the behaviour of the serious and organised criminals; we will arrest them for breaking the law; and we will see them jailed.
“The public can provide us with invaluable assistance. If they have information that can assist in disrupting the activities of drugs dealers, officers will take action.”