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#1 Posted : 7/11/2012 12:02:31 AM
Home Affairs Select Committee - Drugs Policy Inquiry - Evidence Session #7

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=11210 (Requires Silverlight plugin)

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This is the Home Affairs Select Committee’s seventh evidence session in the inquiry into drugs policy. The inquiry, which has received numerous written evidence submissions from organisations and members of the public, is intended to be a comprehensive review of drugs policy.

The first panel will be Danny Kushlick of Transform and Niamh Eastwood of Release. The Committee will question them about the alternatives to prohibition. Transform advocate for legalisation, regulating drug production, supply and use. Release have called for the decriminalisation of drugs.

The second panel will be Chief Constable Tim Hollis, Association of Chief Police Officers and Tom Lloyd, former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire. The Committee will be examining the witnesses on the difficulties of policing drugs and the impacts that funding cuts will have on the effectiveness of drug law enforcement.

The third panel will be Trevor Pearce of the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The Committee will be inquiring to the effectiveness of the UK in supporting partners abroad in their fight against drug traffickers and the difficulties that the agency faces in bringing the drug kingpins to justice.

Witnesses:

At approx 10.30 am
Danny Kushlick, Transform and Niamh Eastwood, Release

At approx 11.30 am
Chief Constable Tim Hollis CBE QPM, Association of Chief Police Officers and Tom Lloyd QPM MA (Oxon), former Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire

At approx 12.00 pm
Trevor Pearce, Director General of SOCA


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