Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Spiking Incidents: Prevention - Jan 11

Richard Graham (Gloucester) (Con):...I will finish on the question of data collection, with a quote from the response of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners  It was given in response to the Home Affairs Committee report by the joint leads for the APPC’s addictions and substance misuse portfolio —one is from Durham and the other from Dorset—who said that

“we agree that the creation of a separate criminal offence for spiking would send a clear message to perpetrators that this behaviour is not acceptable and could encourage victims in coming forwards to report incidents.”

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