'Instant’ drug fines plan
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney
The Australian police are considering on-the-spot fines for possession of marijuana as part of a new battle plan against the expanding drug problem. They also want drug addicts to be registered so they can be made to take treatment as an alternative to arrest, and they want compulsory urine tests for
drug offenders on parole with a positive result meaning a return to jail. The reforms are part of a package put together by a joint task force on drug trafficking, whose head, Detective Chief Superintendent Jim Willis, said were aimed at differentiating between the user and the trafficker.
According to the “Sydney Morning Herald,” other options being looked at include
wider use of formal cautions for offending juveniles, alternatives to arrest for minor offences such as possession of marijuana, and stationing health or welfare officers with police in highrisk drug areas. Mr Willis told a university criminology seminar that the illicit drug problem had not yet peaked and was unlikely to do so for many years.
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