hi guys dont get side-tracked by my comments. they still stand but it means that i am not confident linking kids up to fishing clubs is not a safe way of
ping them having access to gear. i am not setting out to
peoples decisions. i am more interessted in ensuring that drugs dont take control of someones life and they are in control of their drug use regardless of the legal status.
a point of clarifcation though about cannabis is that it is now class c which means that anyone over 17 will not be introduced into the criminal justice system but anyone under 17 will, so there has been no change in law for juvenilles.
however i work in east london as the borough drug advisor and have had it up to my neck with conflicting messages. an example of this is when one of my schools contacted me to say that they have ten dealers identified in their school and the
officer based full time in the school will not make any arrests to search down thier pants but will only search their pockets.
the lads that my staff have been able to work on are the ones giving the names, and the old bill are interperating the law clinically saying that he will only arrest if the teacher tells him the evidence that they have, this has to be done in the presence and hearing of the accused. the lads who are trying to give up are saying how can they all the time they have got people asking them if they want it at school.
any way i have told the chief inspector that the gear is being supplied at certain times a day at a certain place 150 yards away from an east london
station and they are telling me it is not a priority so i have got to solve the problem with no help from plod and yet they are the ones that make this problem more problematic than it needs to be. the conflict is that on one hand you have old bill being clinical in their interpretation when it comes to kids using as it easy to ge a performance indicating arrest but when it comes to dealers they are saying we are not prioritising this. its crazy as the school will not exclude the kids that they find dealing as we know why they are and the money that can be used to try and bring about change is only available if they are arrested.
thats it from me on this one but dont get bogged down on whether there is a mellowed out guy sitting behind a reefer waiting for an alarm to sound. its only a problem if they fall in the lake.
one small step for man and one giant step for mankind, flange the ultimate in stinkiness.