18 arrests as police target dealers' homes in ongoing war on drugs (From Thisisdorset)

KEEP UP THE RAIDS,Drive them out of town,and keep following it up.Then you might start getting back support from the public.

81 arrests but only 11 have been charged?!! What a joke. The police do their jobs, but the CPS don't follow through with their part of the bargain :o/

This is excellent, please keep the momentum going Inspector Weeks

not even scratching the surface and they know it
but bang a few doors through and it looks dramatic .11 charged ? not even one a month .not actually very successful or financially efficient

But will the courts support the police actions?...

It's about time the fluffy 'bleeding hearts' took a step back, and let the courts pass sentences on those convicted which REALLY shows that society will not accept drug dealing within our communities..

. As usual too little too late. The shooting have begun and now the police realise they have to take action?

If the council would stop dumping every drug user in Boscombe at rehab clinics (small percentage succeed) then dozens of halfway houses. Huge amount of users, "ex"users and dropouts in one area and the council and police keep on giving permission for more halfway houses and clinics.

It seems that any failed patients stay in the area and are supported in the halfway houses.

No wonder there is a thriving bunch of dealers and large amounts of crime.

Morrigan wrote:
81 arrests but only 11 have been charged?!! What a joke. The police do their jobs, but the CPS don't follow through with their part of the bargain :o/

It may be that the substances have to be analysed before the person can be charged.
Let's hope those who are charged and go before the Courts get just sentences.

Any action to stop this is excellent news. Keep up the good work.

The police have come in for some criticism of late, from me included but this is excellent news as long as they keep the momentum going to drive this scum from our area.
Looking at court cases over the last few weeks it would appear that it's the CPS who are dragging their feet lately as well as out of touch senile judges.

be interested to know what % of turnover was with rehab patients and etc, and what % was with the well-heeled clubbers in town. i believe you need money to buy drugs.

as i've said before, i lived near a house with dealing going on (closed down last september before some smartarse asks me if i've bothered to report it), and there were a lot of nice white boys in smart cars buying.

as i've also said before, how many readers use or know people who use "recreational" drugs but don't see themselves as being part of the problem? some of the "holier than thou" garbage on here is pretty cringeworthy.

good to see action being taken,seems when the police do anything then you still get tw@ s moaning about them not doing enough,keep it going Insp Weeks.

You have the users.
You have thoose selling on the streets.
You have these people.
Time to go up a level.
I agree it's good to see tat something is being done. But the words: Ocean and drop spring to mind.

yep, this will certainly ensure that all of Boscombes addicts will lose their addiction.

Or maybe in the real world others will move in to 'satisfy' the demand and the same sad circle will continue.

Doubtlessly it will temporarily over exite the ususal curtain twitchers whose perspective on life has not moved on beyond an 'Enid Blyton' view of the world, but will do little to stop the burgling, thieving, prostitution, shoplifting and assorted other crimes that these addicts commit to pay for their drugs.

Neither will it help those on the receiving end of those crimes either - but then it doesn't stop those who rent out the properties these addicts live in from raking in huge profits from the taxpayer either. So as long as there is a bit of 'something being done' publicity put out occasionally then the whole 'snouts in the trough gravy train' can continue.

Trebles all round old boy, pip pip !

Morrigan wrote:
81 arrests but only 11 have been charged?!! What a joke. The police do their jobs, but the CPS don't follow through with their part of the bargain :o/

You can only charge people if there is evidence o f offences.The nos are misleading.I bet most of original arrests were 'punters',or people who were on the premises at the time.

IWhen I used drugs I was in two busts.Each time there were people in the home of the dealer but you swallowthe drugs or whatever.You cant get nicked for sitting in someones home, even if theyre dealing drugs.
The police like to publish big numbers too.
Id also like to point out how inept the drug squad can be.I know someone whos door was kicked in by the police only for them to find it was the wrong address! This happens more often than you may think!
As for the busts? Its always the same pattern & has been for years.Around the end of Summer busts will take place on a large scale.Then the same leading up to Xmas.Things will go quiet for a while then new dealers will pop up.The 'War On Drugs' is phoney.Money would be better spent on actually controlling the supply of drugs by legalising them within a strict framework.Where heroin has been prescribed legally in certain areas, crime has dropped within weeks by up to 95%.Says it all really.Most illegal drugs are actually cheap to make.Its the risk & dangers involved in importation & distibution that makes them so expensive so addicts have to find large amounts of money to fund their habits.
There are lots of big companies PROFITTING from peoples addictions.Martindal
e who make Methadone/Physeptone is making millions supplying a drug thats MORE addictive than heroin.The whole Methadone Programme needs to be looked at.Too many maintenance scripts, which the drug company love, are being dished out thus keeping the drug companies profits up.Also the amount of 'Councellors' etc has exploded.Its a huge business thats costing ridiculous amounts & not working.
Unfortunately certain Right Wing think tanks etc have people believing that everyone would become addicts if drugs were legalised in some way.The current system is not working & a radical step needs to be taken by someone brave enough to stand up to the ultra consevatives.

Good news at last, please keep doing this until the drugs and associated crime are gone.

WATCHED ONE RAID ACROSS THE ROAD FROM ME ON WEDNESDAY THE DEALERS WERE BACK IN BUSINESS ON FRIDAY.
STILL PLEASE KEEP ON HITTING THEM HARD AS WE DO NOT WANT OR NEED DRUGS NOR DEALERS HERE IN BOSCOMBE.

The criminal justice system is weak. Drug dealers are arrested one day and are released by the courts the next. What a sham. If Britain adopted an Islamic stand against crime there would be fewer incidents as criminals found dealing in illegal drugs would be sentenced to death. Dorset police know this but they (some anyway) still try their best. (The rest of the police are corrupt and inept.)

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Good news at last, please keep doing this until the drugs and associated crime are gone.

oh dear

it is rather disturbing to think that there are people out there that believe this old guff

still, it makes a handy distraction from actually dealing with the problem I suppose

abidah wrote:
The criminal justice system is weak. Drug dealers are arrested one day and are released by the courts the next. What a sham. If Britain adopted an Islamic stand against crime there would be fewer incidents as criminals found dealing in illegal drugs would be sentenced to death. Dorset police know this but they (some anyway) still try their best. (The rest of the police are corrupt and inept.)

you want the death penalty when you admit corruption is rife and police are inept? omg bet you'd be happy if you got fitted up, or were the victim of an inept copper, as you were executed.

personally i'm happy with the British system with all it's pitfalls, thank you very much.

beachcomber1 stated that being fitted up would mean that I would be happy if executed for a crime. I would as I would go to Paradise; better to have a strong deterrent than a weak one; better to have the criminal removed than not; better to adopt the Islamic method as it executes as a last resort when the guilt is proven. Criminals are deterred when there is a strong punishment. Incidentally, Islam advocates the use of education too but death to drug dealers is the punishment required.

Nice to see the Police doing what they're paid for rather than chasing around after motorists without a seat belt on for profit.

pete woodley wrote:
KEEP UP THE RAIDS,Drive them out of town,and keep following it up.Then you might start getting back support from the public.

Agree 100%.
The mantra must be - KEEP UP THE RAIDS!
Lets drive the scum out.

Bob49 wrote:

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Good news at last, please keep doing this until the drugs and associated crime are gone.

oh dear

it is rather disturbing to think that there are people out there that believe this old guff

still, it makes a handy distraction from actually dealing with the problem I suppose

Go on then, regail us with your winning alternative Bob. Most comments on here support these raids.

MICHAELJCARPENTER200
3@YAHOO.CO.UK wrote:
WATCHED ONE RAID ACROSS THE ROAD FROM ME ON WEDNESDAY THE DEALERS WERE BACK IN BUSINESS ON FRIDAY.
STILL PLEASE KEEP ON HITTING THEM HARD AS WE DO NOT WANT OR NEED DRUGS NOR DEALERS HERE IN BOSCOMBE.

And PLEASE don't just move them to neighboring Areas. We don't want them neither

Many times I like to watch ‘Australia Border/Passport Patrols’ on ‘Pick TV’.

I am always amazed that after the programme, when they have caught many people trying to bring in drugs into their country. I see afterwards that they were sentenced to prison anything from six to eight years or even more. I might even add in here just how strict the Ozzies are also with immigrants entering their country for purposes other than originally suggested and are soon turned back.

When I watch a typical UK ‘Traffic Cop’ or otherwise documentary. All very intense and exciting as several police cars chase the stolen car as it drives dangerously on all roads (and pavements), then get caught, become violent and abusive to the Police (with their faces blanked out). Found with drugs in the car or whatever and are then shoved into a van all demanding their rights.

It all does make good TV.

Then at the end of the programme, just how disappointing and deflating is it when they state that many either got off with a conditional discharge, community work or worse still, released as there was insufficient evidence?

As said before, don’t have a pop at the guys in blue, they do an excellent job. It is the whole system above them that not only lets us down, but also our most reliable Police Force.

You just cannot fairly mix the two.

beachcomber1 wrote:
be interested to know what % of turnover was with rehab patients and etc, and what % was with the well-heeled clubbers in town. i believe you need money to buy drugs.

as i've said before, i lived near a house with dealing going on (closed down last september before some smartarse asks me if i've bothered to report it), and there were a lot of nice white boys in smart cars buying.

as i've also said before, how many readers use or know people who use "recreational" drugs but don't see themselves as being part of the problem? some of the "holier than thou" garbage on here is pretty cringeworthy.

I don't think many of the well-heeled clubbers in town are taking heroin or crack cocaine. They aren't really party drugs ¬¬

These raids are to crack down on dealers more than users and most dealers aren't rehab patients or well heeled clubbers. In fact some dealers don't even take drugs because they know the effect it has on their 'customers'. They sell it to people who are weak so they can make a nice healthy profit for sitting on their arse all day.

I've, unfortunately, met a few drug dealers in my life and most of them didn't fit your preconceived ideas. They were scary people with no morals and that's why they were happy to sell drugs to the desperate and impressionable.

well done dorset police, about time though, enough is enough - i hope the scum is made an example of and hit with proper sentences. i have had horrible experiences of squatters and druggies as neighbours in lansdiwne, unfair on those of us who work hard for a living only to come home finding these animals taking the pi55 and putting our safety and livelihood in danger

Actually, thinking about this a bit more, I'm guessing that some of those arrested would like to be sent to prison, rather than be released.
As rozmister says, the drug dealers 'proper' (i.e. the ones next up the supply chain) are scary people, who are not going to be best pleased if the police have confiscated their 'stock', and wads of cash.
I can just see them saying, to those caught with the drugs: 'don't worry about it -- it wasn't your fault --don't give my loss of several thousand pounds another thought'

Hmmm.... I think some folk might be hoping they're NOT released on bail!.......

Makes me so sad to see my beautiful town contaminated by these disgusting individuals. I'm glad I moved abroad.

Makes me so sad to see my beautiful town contaminated by these disgusting individuals. I'm glad I moved abroad.

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:

Bob49 wrote:

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Good news at last, please keep doing this until the drugs and associated crime are gone.

oh dear

it is rather disturbing to think that there are people out there that believe this old guff

still, it makes a handy distraction from actually dealing with the problem I suppose

Go on then, regail us with your winning alternative Bob. Most comments on here support these raids.

It would be better if you and 'most on here' could actually tell us why something that has failed over and over and over and over again is going to work this time.



ps I'll give you a clue why it is doomed to fail - whilst there are a huge number of drug addicts in Boscombe, there will be drug dealers. Why do you think there were 'Somalis' dealing drugs in Boscombe ?

You don't deal with an arsonist by employing more firemen.

Deal with the problem and not pander to a few deluded curtain twitchers.

STOP HOUSING DRUG ADDICTS IN BOSCOMBE

It is that simple.

If everyone who saw drug dealing, drug paraphenalia as litter or people in the streets who looked to be under the influence of drugs, reported it to the police their budget would go a lot further than it does. We are all responsible for policing our own communities by reporting crime. Walking the other way and waiting for someone else to do it is what causes the problems.
Don't expect a medal or for them to jump into action on every phone call, just expect to be part of the bigger picture for them.

Keep smashing those doors down, charged or not its disrupting the dealers and the people involved!

disrupting yes,

but NOT stopping the trade, not stopping the crime that funds the trade, not protecting the victims from those crimes

just futile gestures to suggest that something is being done

so maybe the curtain twitchers could explain next week, next month, next year why there is still the same level of crime in Boscombe, the same level of drug dealing and the same number of innocent victims having to be on the recieving end of such destructive activity

you stop houses from burning down by stopping them from being set alight - not by making bigger fire buckets to put the water in

Bob49 wrote:
disrupting yes,

but NOT stopping the trade, not stopping the crime that funds the trade, not protecting the victims from those crimes

just futile gestures to suggest that something is being done

so maybe the curtain twitchers could explain next week, next month, next year why there is still the same level of crime in Boscombe, the same level of drug dealing and the same number of innocent victims having to be on the recieving end of such destructive activity

you stop houses from burning down by stopping them from being set alight - not by making bigger fire buckets to put the water in

Unfortunately continual negativity from people does not help the situation.By taking some sort of action and keeping pressure on the councillors headway can be made.It is not a case of rose coloured glasses its a case of positivity,assisting the police and forward thinking in getting areas back to a standard acceptable by the residents and dont forget there are many,many people outside of those areas that are willing to help if they can in some form

Bob49 wrote:
disrupting yes,

but NOT stopping the trade, not stopping the crime that funds the trade, not protecting the victims from those crimes

just futile gestures to suggest that something is being done

so maybe the curtain twitchers could explain next week, next month, next year why there is still the same level of crime in Boscombe, the same level of drug dealing and the same number of innocent victims having to be on the recieving end of such destructive activity

you stop houses from burning down by stopping them from being set alight - not by making bigger fire buckets to put the water in

Unfortunately continual negativity from people does not help the situation.By taking some sort of action and keeping pressure on the councillors headway can be made.It is not a case of rose coloured glasses its a case of positivity,assisting the police and forward thinking in getting areas back to a standard acceptable by the residents and dont forget there are many,many people outside of those areas that are willing to help if they can in some form

Bob49 wrote:
disrupting yes,

but NOT stopping the trade, not stopping the crime that funds the trade, not protecting the victims from those crimes

just futile gestures to suggest that something is being done

so maybe the curtain twitchers could explain next week, next month, next year why there is still the same level of crime in Boscombe, the same level of drug dealing and the same number of innocent victims having to be on the recieving end of such destructive activity

you stop houses from burning down by stopping them from being set alight - not by making bigger fire buckets to put the water in

Unfortunately continual negativity from people does not help the situation.By taking some sort of action and keeping pressure on the councillors headway can be made.It is not a case of rose coloured glasses its a case of positivity,assisting the police and forward thinking in getting areas back to a standard acceptable by the residents and dont forget there are many,many people outside of those areas that are willing to help if they can in some form

Bob49 wrote:

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:

Bob49 wrote:

Telscombe Cliffy wrote:
Good news at last, please keep doing this until the drugs and associated crime are gone.

oh dear

it is rather disturbing to think that there are people out there that believe this old guff

still, it makes a handy distraction from actually dealing with the problem I suppose

Go on then, regail us with your winning alternative Bob. Most comments on here support these raids.

It would be better if you and 'most on here' could actually tell us why something that has failed over and over and over and over again is going to work this time.



ps I'll give you a clue why it is doomed to fail - whilst there are a huge number of drug addicts in Boscombe, there will be drug dealers. Why do you think there were 'Somalis' dealing drugs in Boscombe ?

You don't deal with an arsonist by employing more firemen.

Deal with the problem and not pander to a few deluded curtain twitchers.

STOP HOUSING DRUG ADDICTS IN BOSCOMBE

It is that simple.

No you've got it the wrong way round, STOP THE DEALER CHAIN(associated shootings/gang warfare/fear on the streets, money laundering,prostitut
ion) and then then addicts (associated nuisance crimes) will drift away from Boscombe. It is that logical, why would they stay? Of course rehab would still be needed and over the years Boscombe could settle back to a normal social mix.
For success these raids do have to be continual. We'll see, you may be right, it may be a show- in which case there will be no change.

"By taking some sort of action "


yep, futile gestures that do nothing bar make for headlines in the newspaper, that's the answer

you've had how many years of this wasteful nonsense, and the problem continues to grow

what is needed is positive action to deal with this problem

that means dealing with the cause - the huge number of drug addicts in Boscombe - break the cycle of dependency that the landlords have on Housing Benefit and you will soon clear the area uo

remove the addicts and you remove the dealers/drug trade

DEAL WITH THE CAUSE, NOT THE EFFECTS

abidah wrote:
The criminal justice system is weak. Drug dealers are arrested one day and are released by the courts the next. What a sham. If Britain adopted an Islamic stand against crime there would be fewer incidents as criminals found dealing in illegal drugs would be sentenced to death. Dorset police know this but they (some anyway) still try their best. (The rest of the police are corrupt and inept.)

What a hilarious joke!

WHERE DO YOU THINK HEROIN IS COMING FROM?
THE TALIBAN ,WHO WANT SHARIAH LAW< SELL HEROIN BY THE TONNE TO MAKE MONEY.THE HYPOCRACY IS ASTOUNDING & YOUR COMMENT RIDICULOUS.

abidah wrote:
beachcomber1 stated that being fitted up would mean that I would be happy if executed for a crime. I would as I would go to Paradise; better to have a strong deterrent than a weak one; better to have the criminal removed than not; better to adopt the Islamic method as it executes as a last resort when the guilt is proven. Criminals are deterred when there is a strong punishment. Incidentally, Islam advocates the use of education too but death to drug dealers is the punishment required.

SINCE MOST HEROIN COMES FROM ISLAMIC COUNTRIES YOUR STATEMENTS ARE LUDICROUS.TALK ABOUT HYPOCRACY!

YES SHARIAH LAW IS SO STRICT ON DRUG PUSHERS.HEROIN FUNDS SO CALLED 'HOLY WARS' AGAINST THE 'INFIDELS'.

rozmister wrote:

beachcomber1 wrote:
be interested to know what % of turnover was with rehab patients and etc, and what % was with the well-heeled clubbers in town. i believe you need money to buy drugs.

as i've said before, i lived near a house with dealing going on (closed down last september before some smartarse asks me if i've bothered to report it), and there were a lot of nice white boys in smart cars buying.

as i've also said before, how many readers use or know people who use &quot;recreational" drugs but don't see themselves as being part of the problem? some of the "holier than thou" garbage on here is pretty cringeworthy.

I don't think many of the well-heeled clubbers in town are taking heroin or crack cocaine. They aren't really party drugs ¬¬

These raids are to crack down on dealers more than users and most dealers aren't rehab patients or well heeled clubbers. In fact some dealers don't even take drugs because they know the effect it has on their 'customers'. They sell it to people who are weak so they can make a nice healthy profit for sitting on their arse all day.

I've, unfortunately, met a few drug dealers in my life and most of them didn't fit your preconceived ideas. They were scary people with no morals and that's why they were happy to sell drugs to the desperate and impressionable.

Heroin is often taken to deal with come downs from Es etc.
The 1st wave of 'Rave Generation' of late 80s early 90s started using heroin as the Sunday Coming Down Drug.Lots of these people went on to become addicted to heroin etc.
There are plenty of people with jobs etc who are heroin addicts.Maybe youvewatched too many of those ridiculous 80s Govt Ads about Heroin addiction? Most people can keep it together for a while.Only when things escalate do people start losing jobs,homes,families etc.From experience when habits start hitting around £50 a day peoples lives start REALLY falling apart.

rozmister wrote:

beachcomber1 wrote:
be interested to know what % of turnover was with rehab patients and etc, and what % was with the well-heeled clubbers in town. i believe you need money to buy drugs.

as i've said before, i lived near a house with dealing going on (closed down last september before some smartarse asks me if i've bothered to report it), and there were a lot of nice white boys in smart cars buying.

as i've also said before, how many readers use or know people who use &quot;recreational" drugs but don't see themselves as being part of the problem? some of the "holier than thou" garbage on here is pretty cringeworthy.

I don't think many of the well-heeled clubbers in town are taking heroin or crack cocaine. They aren't really party drugs ¬¬

These raids are to crack down on dealers more than users and most dealers aren't rehab patients or well heeled clubbers. In fact some dealers don't even take drugs because they know the effect it has on their 'customers'. They sell it to people who are weak so they can make a nice healthy profit for sitting on their arse all day.

I've, unfortunately, met a few drug dealers in my life and most of them didn't fit your preconceived ideas. They were scary people with no morals and that's why they were happy to sell drugs to the desperate and impressionable.

The amount of money spent by heroin addicts in Boscombe is less than the amount spent on charlie to go up rich noses in yuppie bar/clubs.

If the police really want to claim "street value of umpteen thousand pounds" perhaps they should raid these places instead - or are too many of these clients related to those in power?

Personally, most dealers I've met did it primarily to fund their own usage and almost all had jobs.

I suppose Prohibition seemed like a good idea at the time to someone!! It doesn't take long for the big money to move into any shortage where they can see a profit. Legalise the whole lot,supply it in controlled strength and save everyone else from suffering from the fallout.Mind you ,that would probably be handled with the usual comedy inefficiency and officials making a bundle.
With regard to the obvious link between the thieving/burglaries etc,I presume the suppliers can only view so many Plasma screens,use one laptop at a time and wear so much gold and bling,so it appears that the majority of the stolen goods must be sold for cash,not rocket science is it. Notice the many new Cash for this that and the other shops opening across the area and it doesn't take too much intelligence to see where some,if not a majority of the stuff is going. Perhaps a scrutiny of the buying in methods of these premises needs to be looked at. A register of who they buy the goods off,plus identification,drivi
ng licence,passport etc. might be a good idea.Pawn shops to be included of course.

The council get paid 2k for every pedo,alcoholic and druggy they put through a 2 week rehab in boscombe from all over the uk. Once the 2 weeks are over where do you think they go after the 2 weeks are over !!! Errr no where and just add to our ever increasing problem . Most are not sorted in 2 weeks and for as long as they can get drugs and drink (which are freely available in boscombe) and for the pedo as proved unfortunately this Friday they have no reason to leave maybe the police should have a word with the council about stopping bringing these people into our town , then again they have got a IMAX to pay for

Two good posts. Shoplifted stuff is regularly offered in one Boscombe pub and despite there being ID checks at the 'cash shops' there are easy ways round that.

The council won't do anything about housing addicts in Boscombe as it's too lucrative trade for too many landlords. who know the council will always cough up irrespective of the condition of the accomodation so the gravy train continues.

Very, very few of the addicts are local to the area so why not stop this money spinner, pay the landlords the appropriate rate and slowly see the area populated with decent folk in decent housing. And guess what ? With no addicts there will be no drug dealers/

beachcomber1 wrote:
be interested to know what % of turnover was with rehab patients and etc, and what % was with the well-heeled clubbers in town. i believe you need money to buy drugs.

as i've said before, i lived near a house with dealing going on (closed down last september before some smartarse asks me if i've bothered to report it), and there were a lot of nice white boys in smart cars buying.

as i've also said before, how many readers use or know people who use &quot;recreational" drugs but don't see themselves as being part of the problem? some of the "holier than thou" garbage on here is pretty cringeworthy.

Yes but they are not the shoplifters, muggers and burgulars.

*burglars

*burglars

alfie23 wrote:
The council get paid 2k for every pedo,alcoholic and druggy they put through a 2 week rehab in boscombe from all over the uk. Once the 2 weeks are over where do you think they go after the 2 weeks are over !!! Errr no where and just add to our ever increasing problem . Most are not sorted in 2 weeks and for as long as they can get drugs and drink (which are freely available in boscombe) and for the pedo as proved unfortunately this Friday they have no reason to leave maybe the police should have a word with the council about stopping bringing these people into our town , then again they have got a IMAX to pay for

Initial detox 2wks.The stay in a rehab is arouns 8/12 weeks.
Theres a difference between a detox & rehabilitation.Love to know where youve got your misguided facts from?

scrumpyjack wrote:

beachcomber1 wrote:
be interested to know what % of turnover was with rehab patients and etc, and what % was with the well-heeled clubbers in town. i believe you need money to buy drugs.

as i've said before, i lived near a house with dealing going on (closed down last september before some smartarse asks me if i've bothered to report it), and there were a lot of nice white boys in smart cars buying.

as i've also said before, how many readers use or know people who use &quot;recreational" drugs but don't see themselves as being part of the problem? some of the "holier than thou" garbage on here is pretty cringeworthy.

Yes but they are not the shoplifters, muggers and burgulars.

No but happy to buy nicked goods.Too many hypocrites pass comment yet quite happy to buy cheap meat,clothes etc when offered!
Hilarious.

The usual nonsense coming out about decriminalising drugs. Yet no one ever thinks about drug users families including children. When you have worked with the families of addicts, Ill listen to you, then you will realise the dreadful effect drugs has on an addict's family. To make drugs more freely available in this country would be a disaster for the country.

"To make drugs more freely available in this country would be a disaster for the country.”

absolute nonsense !

They are as freely available as you want. The only problem is that they are extremely expensive and dealt with by criminals.

I wonder what further chaos would follow were your idiot ideas to be implimented with regard to anti depressants, valium, prozac etc

Those with a habit would not need to commit crime and those criminals currently dealing drugs would not have a market.

But no, lets carry on as we are with no let up in the crimes associated with drug addiction and no let up in the number of victims who continually have to suffer from these crimes.

Perhaps you could tell us all how long this war has been going on and how many battles have been won ................ and how many have been lost.

Bob49 wrote:
&quot;To make drugs more freely available in this country would be a disaster for the country.”

absolute nonsense !

They are as freely available as you want. The only problem is that they are extremely expensive and dealt with by criminals.

I wonder what further chaos would follow were your idiot ideas to be implimented with regard to anti depressants, valium, prozac etc

Those with a habit would not need to commit crime and those criminals currently dealing drugs would not have a market.

But no, lets carry on as we are with no let up in the crimes associated with drug addiction and no let up in the number of victims who continually have to suffer from these crimes.

Perhaps you could tell us all how long this war has been going on and how many battles have been won ................ and how many have been lost.

Like I said when you have dealt with families who have suffered because of drug use and children have gone into care and then adopted, Ill listen to your all knowing attitude.

If you decriminalise drugs the dealers will still be there. That wont change. There will always be plenty needing more than there legal limits. The government will be raking it in, pharmaceutical companies will be raking it in. The police will just be as busy as before, and there will be an even bigger strain on the NHS and Social Services, in other words your money as the taxpayer.

Morrigan wrote:
81 arrests but only 11 have been charged?!! What a joke. The police do their jobs, but the CPS don't follow through with their part of the bargain :o/

Its all a knee jerk reaction, without the murder no warrants would have taken place,81 arrest, bet there all two bit users

The coucillors, Police need to wake up to the situation, you could plough a million pounds into boscombe, you could carpet the streets in red carpet, but it wont change what the situation is. Drug dealing is like any other business, the dealer has a commodity to sell, so like any other business where do you take your commodity? The place where theres best business ! ie in this case boscombe, you wouldn't try and sell beef burgers at a vegatarians festival??? The police could do warrants day in day out, but that dosen't stop the dealing at the specific premises, once nay arrests are made then they go, and who ever's left can continue to deal, the house needs to be "Crack House Closure"
All the waarnts just looks good to the nieve public who don't scrutinise what is actually being said and done, and in this case very little is being done, it just looks like it...Wake up pink fluffy police??

woowar wrote:
This is excellent, please keep the momentum going Inspector Weeks

Wake up Woowar there is no momentum it's all knee jerk re action by Insp weeks.See my comment at end of this page

Quoted by Insp Weeks “The message to the wider community is simple – if you tell us we will take action.”
Funny that I called the 101 today and told them about dealing in boscombe I was told, not force priority and they wouldn't send an officer, but would log my call for information purpose??? Wonder where my cal ended up, not on weeks desk that a certantity?
Wont bother in future

s-pb2 wrote:

Bob49 wrote: &quot;To make drugs more freely available in this country would be a disaster for the country.” absolute nonsense ! They are as freely available as you want. The only problem is that they are extremely expensive and dealt with by criminals. I wonder what further chaos would follow were your idiot ideas to be implimented with regard to anti depressants, valium, prozac etc Those with a habit would not need to commit crime and those criminals currently dealing drugs would not have a market. But no, lets carry on as we are with no let up in the crimes associated with drug addiction and no let up in the number of victims who continually have to suffer from these crimes. Perhaps you could tell us all how long this war has been going on and how many battles have been won ................ and how many have been lost.

Like I said when you have dealt with families who have suffered because of drug use and children have gone into care and then adopted, Ill listen to your all knowing attitude. If you decriminalise drugs the dealers will still be there. That wont change. There will always be plenty needing more than there legal limits. The government will be raking it in, pharmaceutical companies will be raking it in. The police will just be as busy as before, and there will be an even bigger strain on the NHS and Social Services, in other words your money as the taxpayer.

People selling drugs will still be there, but they will be licensed outlets creating tax revenue. That tax, plus the huge amount saved on policing, can be used on programmes to help addicts.

s-pb2 wrote:
The usual nonsense coming out about decriminalising drugs. Yet no one ever thinks about drug users families including children. When you have worked with the families of addicts, Ill listen to you, then you will realise the dreadful effect drugs has on an addict's family. To make drugs more freely available in this country would be a disaster for the country.

Once again a knee jerk reaction to a fair comment.So the current laws are working are they?
I know the affects drugs have on families from personal experience.What about alcohol? More deaths linked to alcohol.More violent crime linked to alcohol.More child & domestic abuse linked to alcohol.Try looking a few FACTS up.
Once again no thought just reaction.No ones saying put drugs on sale so anyone can buy.So the present WORLD WIDE WAR ON DRUGS IS WORKING? What do you suggest then? Why not at least stabilise the addicts we have already by controlled distibution.Where pilot schemes have been tried the crimes normally associated with drug used such as burglary/theft dropped off by 90% within 2 weeks.This was in an area of Lancs with epidemic of drug addiction & crime.Lots of people take drugs & lead normal lives.How do you account for this? Addiction is recognised as a ILLNESS by BMA.The current laws dont work.If they did there wouldnt be the problems we have.

Theres a war on drugs, and the ones on drugs are winning it. get em.