Drug raids not working

[30 July 2008]

Drug swoops are having little impact on reducing supply or demand of drugs, research has suggested.

The UK Drug Policy Commission said that depite a large amount of money being spent trying to tackle the problem, traditional police tactics are not working. The Commission said that the £5.3billion British drugs market is too 'fluid' for law enforcement agencies to cut supply. It also said that more should be done to reduce the effect that drugs have on communities. The amount of Class A drugs seized between 1996 and 2005 doubled, the market had been 'extremely resilient'. This was despite 12% of heroin and 9% of cocaine in Britain being impounded during the same period, and convictions of both drug dealers and traffickers.

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