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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
James Tapper and Shanti Das

‘We can’t tackle drink-spiking alone’: Met teams up with London venues amid increasing reports

Two staff members sitting at a desk looking up at a bank of CCTV display screens
The surveillance room at the Tiger Tiger London nightclub allows staff to monitor any suspicious activity. Photograph: Sonja Horsman/The Observer

The bank of video screens looks like something straight out of a spy movie. Inside a secure room, dozens of images show footage of staircases, doors, the bar, booths and the dancefloor. This is Tiger Tiger London, a popular nightclub in the capital’s West End, and the CCTV operators are scanning for suspicious behaviour.

A floorplan on the wall has pins marking hotspots where clubbers have previously been sexually harassed, had something stolen, been injured or – the reason the Metropolitan Police has persuaded the club to open its doors to journalists – had their drink spiked.

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