Police to get new anti-drug powers (UK) -Guardian

[Rose Siding]

Police will be given new powers to crack down on drugs as a new survey shows Britain has the highest cocaine use in Europe.
Under a new drugs bill published today, police will have greater powers to close crack houses and to automatically treat people caught in possession of a certain amount of a drug as dealers.
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The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction 2004 report found that 2% of all adults in the UK and Spain reported recent cocaine use, close to figures for the US, compared to less than 1% across the EU as a whole.
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The bill will also allow a suspect's "unreasonable" refusal to consent to an intimate body search to count against them in court. Magistrates will be given the power to remand into police custody for up to a further 192 hours those who swallow drugs until the evidence becomes available again.

The Anti-Social Behaviour Act will also be amended to give police the power to enter premises such as crack houses to issue a closure notice.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1359360,00.html

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. now watch as every house in england

becomes a crack house in the eyes of the cops

[Tempest]

2. And just like in the U.S.

Prison building will become the biggest industry in the UK.

Provincial budgets will become stressed out from the cost of keeping the huge influx of prisoners for a non-violent crime.