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Norfolk police investigating drug dealing have arrested more than 300 children in less than 18 months, as part of a crackdown.

CLEVELAND'S new Police and Crime Commissioner Steve Turner has been told he is “making a mistake” by ending funding from his office for a trailblazing heroin addiction treatment (HAT) scheme. Conservative Mr Turner says he will not fund the Middlesbrough-based project when funding from the PCC runs out in September and said he had seen no actual evidence, beyond anecdotal accounts, that it had reduced crime in the town. But Councillor Chris Jones, a Liberal Democrat who stood against Mr Turner in last week’s PCC election and is also a member of Cleveland’s Police and Crime Panel...

FIVE candidates who hope to become the Sussex police and crime commissioner (PCC) are standing for election tomorrow.

Police commissioner candidate Martin Schmierer argues for drug consumption rooms in Norwich. - Credit: Paul Faith/PA Wire Suggestions for a new approach to tackling drug use in Norwich have been welcomed by a council flat resident after a decade of issues.   Martin Schmierer, the Green Party candidate for Norfolk’s police and crime commissioner has called for a rethink on the way drug issues are combated, arguing the war on drugs in Britain has failed like alcohol prohibition in 1920s America.   "The war on drugs isn't being won and we cannot arrest our way out of the problem,” Mr Sc...

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