Source: Cop2Cop

Almost a quarter of a million drug-related offenses the police in Germany has to be hunted, but they get mainly the small-scale consumers of soft drugs such as cannabis, not the dealer, and backers of the billion dollar drug cartel. The chairman of the police union (GdP) in NRW, Frank Richter, has called on the criminal forum of its union for a different drug policies. “We need to put the bottom of the international drug cartels operating dry, instead of focusing on consumer small amounts of cannabis,” said Richter. “That would make resources free to prosecute the people behind.”

In the prosecution of offenses, the consumer GdP calls for an expansion of opportunity principle to the police. The german police have no other choice than even for small amounts of cannabis, they must go through all the proceedings till a state attorny judges on it. “We are not looking to legalize drugs,” Richter said in the criminal forum of the GDP, “but we must ask ourselves whether we are using the resources in the fight against drugs more effectively.”

Republish