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BEING FRANK
Borough commander calls for hard drugs to be decriminalised just after
retiring.
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| It takes £3m for
the government being honest about drugs. At least it is what the
name of a new campaign suggests: "Talk to Frank" aims
to provide "accurate, confidential and unbiased information"
to parents and children about drugs. It didn't cost anything (at least financially) to Police Chief Superintendent Anthony Wills being frank over the debate on combating drugs. Mr Wills defended the decriminalisation of all drugs, including crack, heroin and cocaine, and said that policing cannabis is a waste of time. |
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In an interview to a local newspaper, reproduced by most of the national press, he said : "I would have no problems with decriminalising drugs full stop." "I am very liberal in relation to possession of drugs. Policing cannabis is a waste of our time as I do not feel the effects of cannabis are any worse than over-consumption of alcohol." |
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But he stressed: "I am not
saying people should take drugs. They are very bad for you but
the reality of the world we live in is this: if people want to
get drugs they can get them. Drugs are a fact of life and you
cannot eradicate them. My only concern is to increase the safety
of the community and not to allow these ghastly people." He said "stringent measures" are needed over drug production and supply and the market needed to be removed from the dealers: "There have to be very stringent measures over the production and supply of drugs and we have got to remove the drug market from criminals." Mr Wills' interview generated criticism.
So did the new educational campaign because its focus is entirely
on illegality, instead of offering advice on harm reduction. Let's
be frank: is there a right approach? |
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