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Ideas of action
Chief Inspector Stuart Lander, operational ACPO lead for National Tackling Drugs Week, will be co-ordinating police activities. He will be in contact with forces and is available to respond to specific questions you might have about police activities during the week.
Ideas of Activities
- Tackle visible drug markets where they are a problem
- Close Cannabis factories and Crack Houses
- Publicise examples of drug dealers assets being confiscated and highlight the funds returned to the police from these seizures.
- Publicise example of where the co-ordianted use of powers, sanctions and levers is disrupting dealers
- Publicise safer neighbourhood teams that have a focus on drug related criminality where it is identified locally as an issue
- Demonstrate evidence of where partners are operating effective integrated offender management models to identify and target those drug offenders causing the most harm to local communities
- Record information on various enforcement results during national Tackling Drugs Week. e.g
* Arrest / charges for the supply of class A drugs
* Sentences/Convictions for supply offences
* Firearms seized, limitation firearms
* Rounds of ammunition
* Other weapons seized
- Examples of effective and innovative work to joing enforcement and demand reduction initiatives such as the Drug Interventions Programme
- Highlight and promote local campaigns such as 'Rat on a Rat' as these campaigns have a community focus and enable strong messages to be delivered that emphasise enforcement activity
