London Road: Stop-and-search by police on patrol in wake of shooting takes drugs off streets of Sheffield
Police on patrol after a recent shooting found hundreds of pounds worth of drugs in a stop and search.
Officers say they will be on patrol around Sheffield’s London Road “for the foreseeable.”
It comes after a 16-year-old boy was shot in an incident on November 26 near the junction of Abbeydale Road. A 26-year-old man is in custody and the boy remains fighting for his life in hospital.
Now, officers in the Sheffield South West NPT say their hours spent patrolling the busy road led to drugs being taken off the street.
One policeman, PC Dan Wegg, wrote how they caught a man carrying over 40 nondescript white pills through a stop and search for drugs.
He said: “...this weekend I’ve been on patrol with colleagues around London Road, as we aim to reassure members of our community following Monday’s shooting.
“Whilst we’ve been focusing on reassurance, we have also been on the look out for criminal activity in the area and, earlier today, our suspicions led us to conducting a stop and search on London Road which resulted in us finding suspected drugs and making an arrest.
“Me and the team will be concentrating on this area for the foreseeable to ensure people who live and work here can go about their daily business without worrying about what’s around the corner.”
Following the shooting, police arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder in Aberdeen on Saturday (November 29, 2025), along with a 23-year-old woman also arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. A 40-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender earlier this week, has also been bailed.
As investigations continue, Chief Superintendent Jamie Henderson, District Commander for Sheffield, has written to people in the area, urging people in the community to work with the police “to ensure this cannot happen again.”