NARCOTICS PROBLEM
Detective Tours U.S. (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 13. Detective Chief Inspector R J. Walton, of the Auckland C. 1.8., returned today after five weeks' study of anti-narcotics enforcement in the United States. His visit followed an announcement by Police Commissioner C. L. Spencer some time ago that the police would be reorganised throughout the country to stamp out the “precarious toehold” that drug trafficking has obtained in New Zealand.
Mr Walton said he was preparing a major report for Mr Spencer.
Mr Walton took a two weeks’ course with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Washington, spent several days with the capital's police narcotics and homicide squads and then worked with the Bureau of Narcotics in New York City. New York was the heart of the American narcotics problem, he said. More than 13,000 narcotics violations were recorded there alone last year. California, near the Mexican border, was “a hotbed Of smuggling.” There were more than 18,000 adult and nearly 2000 juvenile drug arrests in that state last year. Studies showed that 75 per cent of American addicts had criminal records before they began on drugs, he and.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30802, 14 July 1965, Page 12
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