(…) Neil Woods: In the UK 50,000 children are dealing heroin, per the UK government website. This information is now removed now from the website due likely to embarrassment. I first bought heroin from a child in 2001 as undercover cop. Now it is the norm, before it was shocking – you are now more …
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)
Side event: Women in law enforcement and drug policy – it’s a feminist issue
Suzanne Sharkey: Its 2023 and last month a male friend said to me women in western society have equality they are 50% of the population after all – Oh how I laughed and how he regretted the question – but it’s not his fault that is what he has seen and he has learnt – …
Side event: The ineffectiveness of disproportionate sentencing: Towards sensible and people-centred policies
Organised by the Instituto RIA AC with the support of Colombia, Elementa DDHH, DeJusticia, Acción Técnica Social, the Drug Policy Alliance, the International Drug Policy Consortium and the Law Enforcement Action Partnership Luiz Felipe Cruz, Lyn Ulbricht,Tehshia Naidoo, Neil Woods, Camilo Eduardo Umana Tuesday 14th March 13:00-13:50 Luiz Felipe (DeJusticia): There has been the implementation …
CND thematic sessions on the implementation of all international drug policy commitments, following-up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration – 21 September 2022
Multiyear Workplan 2019-2023: Implementation of all our international drug policy commitments, following up to the 2019 ministerial declaration “Strengthening Our Actions at the National, Regional and International Levels to Accelerate the Implementation of our Joint Commitments to Address and Counter the World Drug Problem” The provisional agenda for the intersessional meeting is as follows: 1. Thematic …
Side event A new chapter in law enforcement influencing drug policy
Side event organized by LEAP Suzanne Sharkey – LEAP UK My name is Suzanne Sharkey. I am Co executive director of UK Leap, also Europe. Welcome everybody, and if you’d like, throughout the panel discussion, if you have any questions that you’d like put to the panel, please use the question answer box, which should …
Side event: Should Police be leading reform? Diversion schemes, decriminalisation and drug consumption rooms
Organized by Law Enforcement Action Partnership UK and Law Enforcement Action Partnership US James Nicholls, Transform Drug Policy Foundation Police Diversion Schemes in the UK Context: 43 forces; 7 with existing diversion schemes. 135,000 simple possession arrests in the UK in 2019. Reduced police resources. Increased incidences of more serious violent crime (including drug-related). Introduction …