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Key messages for National Tackling Drugs Week

Below are the key messages for National Tackling Drugs Week

Key messages

• There is a huge range of people working together to tackle drugs and reduce drug-related crime in your area including local authority and voluntary substance misuse workers, neighbourhood policing teams, youth workers etc.
• Here's what we're doing to tackle drugs and here's what you can do to help us.
• Police forces are cracking down on drug-related crime; crack houses and cannabis factories are being closed.
• Police are seizing more dealers' cash and assets on arrest and re-investing proceeds into the community.
• Local police-led drug enforcement campaigns such as 'Rat on a Rat' are maximising community intelligence, identifying drug dealers and disrupting markets
• Neighbourhood policing teams are working to ensure that community concerns about drugs are reported and acted upon. Your local Neighbourhood Policing Team or Safer Neighbourhood Team can be contacted by (insert local contact details).
• Here are the ways you can find out what action has been taken in your area and here's how to tell us what concerns you the most.
• Supply of Class A drugs is being taken out at the highest level through the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).
• Drug treatment works. Users, their families and their communities all benefit from users being in treatment.
• The support provided by drug treatment services stabilises drug users lives, resulting in fewer crimes and a reduced health risk to themselves and others.
• There are drug workers in police stations, courts and prisons to help drug uses and to reduce the crime committed by themselves and others.
• Drug users are being forced to make tough choices between treating their habit or facing criminal penalties.