Yard Chief: Cannabis Arrests Are Pointless

Evening Standard - London (January 30, 2004)

Author: Robert Jobson

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A TOP Scotland Yard officer today said it was "pointless" for police to arrest people with small amounts of cannabis.

Sir Ian Blair, Deputy Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said the old system was "grossly inefficient" and put too much burden on individual patrol officers.

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Yard Chief: Cannabis Arrests Are Pointless

His intervention is bound to spark controversy after the Government's decision to downgrade cannabis from a class B to a class C drug, which came into effect...

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