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UK: DOPE COP-OUT Cops decriminalising cannabis by the back door with about two thirds of users being let off

John Lucas

The Sun

Thursday 16 Jan 2020

COPS have been accused of decriminalising cannabis by the back door — with about two thirds of users being let off.

They get informal “community resolutions” instead.

Last night David Green, director of the criminal justice think tank Civitas, said the option should be used only for a first offence.

He told the Daily Telegraph: “I suspect this is just a way of getting it off police books and not doing much about it.”

And he added that if punishments do not “send a strong message of disapproval, then you are effectively decriminalising cannabis and making it likely to be used again”.

Community resolutions are an alternative to formal charges, fines or cautions and can involve offenders simply having guidance read to them by a police officer.

Figures obtained by The Telegraph show the Met gave such warnings to 50.8 per cent of cannabis users from January to March last year — up from 3.8 per cent in 2015.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10749961/cops-decriminalising-cannabis-by-back-door-two-thirds-users-let-off/

 

 

 

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