A further 11 drug dealers have been sentenced for selling Class A drugs on the streets of Bath, appearing at Bristol Crown Court last week after being caught during a large scale police operation in December last year.
Four of the dealers were handed immediate prison terms totalling eight years and four months.
The other seven were handed suspended sentences ranging from one year and eight months to two years.
Their sentences come after 15 others arrested during a series of early morning raids were jailed for a combined total of more than 40 years.
Two others had also previously been given two year suspended sentences.
In addition, many of those dealt with by the courts in relation to the operation have been made subject to Criminal Behaviour Orders for five years.
The orders place restrictions or positive requirements on the convicted dealers aimed at disrupting any future criminal behaviour.
The conditions include limiting their access to mobile phones and sim cards, restricting their movements in and around Bath and barring them from associating with one another.
Some of the CBOs ban individuals from entering Bath completely while others will only be allowed to enter the city if they have a pre-arranged appointment with a recognised agency or service.
A number of the dealers are also required to take part in drug rehabilitation courses.
Chief Inspector Kevin Thatcher said: “Residents of Bath have the right to live in a city free from crime and shouldn’t have to put up with dealers openly selling drugs on their streets.
“We are committed to doing everything we can to make Bath a hostile place for these criminals to operate in and to apprehend those who are involved.
“The prison terms send a clear message that behaviour of this kind will not be tolerated while the Criminal Behaviour Orders will make it harder for these dealers to continue their offending should they not be deterred by the sentences given to them.”
He added: “A lot of our success in apprehending drug dealers like these depends on the intelligence provided to us.
“We always listen to the concerns of our communities but it can take us some time to develop the intelligence we receive and people shouldn’t assume that because they don’t see immediate results, that it isn’t being acted upon.
“On Thursday, just after these sentences were passed, we arrested two people for drug offences and our uniformed patrols to target drug and alcohol-related anti-social behaviour continue.”
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