Great 999 Climbdown U-Turn On Drug-Dealing Being 'Non-Emergency'

Daily Mail (March 09, 2006)

Author: James Slack

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CONTROVERSIAL plans to downgrade drug dealing from being a 999 emergency were yesterday abandoned in a humiliating Government U- turn.

The Home Office backed down after the Daily Mail revealed fury at the idea.

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Great 999 Climbdown U-Turn On Drug-Dealing Being 'Non-Emergency'

Last week, we exposed internal papers which included 'people dealing drugs' among a list of offences to be switched to a new 101 non- emergency number which ...

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