29-08-2019, 08:40 AM
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Young Drug Dealers offered free driving lessons.
Is this right ? I can see and understand the opening up of career opportunities, ...but 'driving lessons' ?I did in fact think it was a joke when I first read it. More like a career in 'delivery service'... we'll pay !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...XjtoSA4d2FZEAU
Young drug dealers are being offered career opportunities, boxing sessions and driving lessons in a bid to end the "revolving door" of reoffending.
Offenders are given training instead of facing court but participants suspected of crimes while on the scheme would be charged, police said.
The Call-In scheme has been launched as a pilot in Bristol.
The Home Office said operational decisions lay with chief constables but "we expect them to enforce the law".
Drug convictions in England and Wales dropped slightly in 2018 to 67,831 from 75,695 in 2017. They were at their highest in recent times in 2012 at more than 98,000 in a year.
Det Supt Gary Haskins said police wanted to "take a chance" with young dealers before they became one of these statistics.
He admitted there was a risk they could reoffend during the mandatory six-to-nine months but said it was a risk Avon and Somerset Police was willing to take.
Sessions offered during the Call-In scheme, which has funding from Bristol City Council, include non-contact boxing to look at fitness and anger management and a course with Street2Boardroom, which aims to help people to apply "the hustle" they have learned on the street to legitimate business.
Mr Haskins said the scheme also helped people to get the necessary paperwork and qualifications to work in the construction industry, provided driving lessons and if appropriate, English lessons.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "How police choose to pursue investigations is an operational decision for chief constables.
"We must prevent drug use in our communities and support people dependent on drugs through treatment and recovery."
The police told the BBC one person on the Call-In scheme had been removed and charged with dealing class A drugs. He will appear in Bristol Magistrates' Court in September.
Another has been removed after being found in possession of a weapon
29-08-2019, 09:09 AM
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Re: Young Drug Dealers offered free driving lessons.
Originally Posted by Puddle Duck
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Is this right ? I can see and understand the opening up of career opportunities, ...but 'driving lessons' ? I did in fact think it was a joke when I first read it. More like a career in 'delivery service'... we'll pay !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...XjtoSA4d2FZEAU
Young drug dealers are being offered career opportunities, boxing sessions and driving lessons in a bid to end the "revolving door" of reoffending.
Offenders are given training instead of facing court but participants suspected of crimes while on the scheme would be charged, police said.
The Call-In scheme has been launched as a pilot in Bristol.
The Home Office said operational decisions lay with chief constables but "we expect them to enforce the law".
Drug convictions in England and Wales dropped slightly in 2018 to 67,831 from 75,695 in 2017. They were at their highest in recent times in 2012 at more than 98,000 in a year.
Det Supt Gary Haskins said police wanted to "take a chance" with young dealers before they became one of these statistics.
He admitted there was a risk they could reoffend during the mandatory six-to-nine months but said it was a risk Avon and Somerset Police was willing to take.
Sessions offered during the Call-In scheme, which has funding from Bristol City Council, include non-contact boxing to look at fitness and anger management and a course with Street2Boardroom, which aims to help people to apply "the hustle" they have learned on the street to legitimate business.
Mr Haskins said the scheme also helped people to get the necessary paperwork and qualifications to work in the construction industry, provided driving lessons and if appropriate, English lessons.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "How police choose to pursue investigations is an operational decision for chief constables.
"We must prevent drug use in our communities and support people dependent on drugs through treatment and recovery."
The police told the BBC one person on the Call-In scheme had been removed and charged with dealing class A drugs. He will appear in Bristol Magistrates' Court in September.
Another has been removed after being found in possession of a weapon
29-08-2019, 11:28 AM
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Re: Young Drug Dealers offered free driving lessons.
Yes it sounds crazy but I can see the positives of this idea.Most kids now leaving school have no job opportunities.
So any of these individuals who want to learn what ever is on offer then why not help them.
Lets face it the powers to be are right they will do their time and come straight back out on the streets and start dealing again.Perhaps learn more ways not to be caught in prison as well.
Not to keen on this teaching them how to speak English.
Thats suggesting to me that the dealers are immigrants and really if they are villains then they should be shipped back to where ever they came from.
29-08-2019, 12:30 PM
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Re: Young Drug Dealers offered free driving lessons.
Originally Posted by longfellow
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Yes it sounds crazy but I can see the positives of this idea.Most kids now leaving school have no job opportunities.
So any of these individuals who want to learn what ever is on offer then why not help them.
Lets face it the powers to be are right they will do their time and come straight back out on the streets and start dealing again.Perhaps learn more ways not to be caught in prison as well.
Not to keen on this teaching them how to speak English.
Thats suggesting to me that the dealers are immigrants and really if they are villains then they should be shipped back to where ever they came from.
The first thing that should be thrown out is the ''three strikes and you are out'' madness.
Teaching drug dealers to drive? that should help them get around in their trade. Doh!
29-08-2019, 03:39 PM
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Re: Young Drug Dealers offered free driving lessons.
Originally Posted by shropshiregirl
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Well, hopefully once Brexit has been put to rest and things settle down, Boris and Priti Patel will put an end to all this Liberal rubbish of rewarding criminals and crime.The first thing that should be thrown out is the ''three strikes and you are out'' madness.
Teaching drug dealers to drive? that should help them get around in their trade. Doh!
I LIKE the three strikes principle. If the SOB's haven't learned that criminality is socially unacceptable then take them out of society until they are no longer a cost to society.
Put them in long term storage.
What's more change prison from simply a place of incarceration where having restrictions on freedom is considered as being sufficient punishment in itself into places of long term storage with no social contact while banged up and if they eventually emerge as broken-spirited broken-hearted window-lickers then so much the better.
Places like that located at Long Kesh (The Maize) used during the invasion of the UK by Fenians would be ideal.
29-08-2019, 06:53 PM
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Re: Young Drug Dealers offered free driving lessons.
Originally Posted by longfellow
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Yes it sounds crazy but I can see the positives of this idea.Most kids now leaving school have no job opportunities.
So any of these individuals who want to learn what ever is on offer then why not help them.
Lets face it the powers to be are right they will do their time and come straight back out on the streets and start dealing again.Perhaps learn more ways not to be caught in prison as well.
Not to keen on this teaching them how to speak English.
Thats suggesting to me that the dealers are immigrants and really if they are villains then they should be shipped back to where ever they came from.
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