NSW coroner recommends pill-testing and curbs on strip searches at music festivals

Harriet Grahame also recommends removing police drug dogs after inquest into the deaths of six young people

The use of high-visibility policing tactics such as drug-dogs and “large-scale” strip searching at music festivals “increases rather than decreases” the risks associated with drugs, the New South Wales deputy coroner has recommended.

In landmark findings published on Friday the state’s deputy coroner, Harriet Grahame, recommended the introduction of pill-testing and said she was satisfied there was “significant evidence” that “intensive and punitive drug policing operations” were increasing “drug-related risks and harm”.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2qAFsoY
via
0 Comments