As
a former drugs squad chief I've seen too many youngsters
die. I'm determined
by children don't get hooked which is why I want all drugs
legalised.
Seven years of my life was spent in Scotland Yard Anti-Drug
Squad, four as its head. I saw the misery that drug abuse
can cause. I saw at first hand the squalor, the wrecked
lives, the deaths.
And
I saw, and arrested when I could, the people who do
so well out of drugs: the dealers, the importers, the
organisers. I saw the immense profits they were making
out of human misery, the money laundering, the crime
syndicates they financed.
They were running a business a hugely profitable business
where mark-ups were
immense, where they had a captive market, and where
they paid no taxes on their profits.
Later, in the Murder Squad, I saw the drugs-related
killings. And as `crime manager' of London police stations,
I saw the knock-on crime: the muggings, break-ins and
burglaries to which addicts resort to pay for their
drugs.
I
had a professional interest in stopping all this.
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