Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Cocaine Cautions: Violent Crime Falls

<p>An op in which suspects caught with small amounts of cocaine receive a conditional caution rather than the prospect of prosecution has been praised for cutting violent crime.</p><p>Under Op Kingston, Merseyside Police officers have been deploying to Liverpool city centre from mid-evening to the early hours which is an identified peak time for violence.</p><p>Suspects who are caught carrying fewer than five individual wraps of the Class A drug and who have no criminal record for possession with intent to supply are handed over to colleagues at a mobile custody suite to receive a conditional caution.</p><p>A Crown Prosecution Service representative is also in the mobile suite to authorise the move. The arresting officer only makes a pro forma statement before heading back out on the beat.</p><p><a href="http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Local+and+Neighbourhood+Policing/2012/Dec/19/Cocaine-Cautions-Violent-Crime-Falls_59238.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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