Durkan: Vigilantes not the answer to Londonderry's drug problem

Responding to reports that dissident republican group Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) has ordered ten people to leave the city immediately, Mr Durkan said: "People should not take the law into their own hands.

"We all need to recognise that drugs are a serious problem in Derry but RAAD are not a serious answer to that problem.

"The fact is we can't have people setting themselves up to deal with these sorts of problems.

"That is not reliable and it is not credible. In itself, that not only leads to illegal activity but to the abuse and manipulation of people as well."