Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Organised Crime: Young People’s Safety - Sep 5
Thursday, 6 September 2018 09:32
Ronnie Cowan (Inverclyde) (SNP):...Yesterday, there was a well
attended meeting in Committee Room 10—better attended than this
debate, unfortunately; where are all our fellow MPs? Most people
there were serving cops or Police and Crime Commissioners. A
common phrase, repeated throughout that meeting, was, “We
can’t arrest our way out of a drugs war.” That is from serving law
enforcement agencies throughout the United Kingdom. We need
solutions, not retribution. I understand...Request free trial
(Inverclyde)
(SNP):...Yesterday, there was a well attended meeting in
Committee Room 10—better attended than this debate, unfortunately;
where are all our fellow MPs? Most people there were serving cops
or Police
and Crime Commissioners. A common phrase, repeated
throughout that meeting, was, “We can’t arrest our way out of
a drugs war.” That is from serving law enforcement agencies
throughout the United Kingdom. We need solutions, not retribution.
I understand it—if one of my kids was sold a tab at a music
festival, and that tab could kill them, as we have seen time and
again, I would want to hunt down the person responsible and nail
them to a wall. That might make me feel good, but it would not stop
the distribution, and it would not help the next parent going
through the same agony that I had just been put through...
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