Drugs and Crime
April 27, 2005 9:19 AM
Speaking at an election debate attended by Upper Sixth Form students from Rugby High School for Girls and Lawrence Sheriff School, Richard Allanach tackled head on the issue of drugs and crime.
The Labour and Tory parties are attacking us as being soft on drugs and crime because we don't believe that it is a good use of public money to lock people up when they are found in possession of a joint or a small quantity of other illegal drugs.
We do think it is a good thing to fund our National Health Service to be able to rehabilitate people who want to give up addictive drugs. The majority of people who go into prison with a drug addiction leave prison with the same addiction. We would like the courts to sentence people to a drug treatment order.
The Liberal Democrats have a funded plan to recruit 10,000 more police. We want them to operate with fewer regulations so they can spend more time on the streets, we want them to have modern technology so that they can be more effective.
We want to see a new prison regime with greater emphasis on drug rehabilitation and greater emphasis on prison education. Too many prisoners leave prison as they went in illiterate and addicted to drugs. It is not forgivable but it is predictable that once released they return to crime. We want to see prisoners leaving prison able to read and write and without the addiction they entered prison with.
We believe our policies will be effective in the fight against crime.
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