Alcohol and drugs have a significant impact on the community and on the frontline resources of Western Australia Police. Police encounter a range of drug related problems including¹:
- drug possession, trafficking, cultivation, manufacture
- property crime (research shows that drug users not only commit property crime to generate income but also commit crimes under the influence of a drug [intoxication²])
- violent crime, assault, family violence
- sexual assault
- child abuse and neglect;
- fatal and non-fatal overdose
- drink and drug driving
- loss of public amenity – disturbances, public intoxication, anti-social behaviour, vandalism, property damage, loitering to buy drugs, discarding drug use equipment in public places; and
- dangers to police from clandestine labs, violence and needle stick injuries
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