Drug Dealer Resentenced

"When detectives searched his mother's house they found a huge quantity of drugs – consisting of 8840g of methylamphetamine, 7113 ecstasy tablets, 8347 LSD tabs, 11kg of cannabis and 422g of cocaine – with a street value of $1.2 million.
They also found $246,550 in cash, a semi-automatic pistol and a revolver."

Our DPP had made an appeal which was subsequently upheld. Sorry, but when you are dealing with people like this who are clearly so prepared to deal so much death and misery to people, then I don't think you deal with them, you deal to them. Drugs make a lot of money so they will do whatever it takes to get back to dealing...and then of course there is the significant problem that once they are in the group , they cannot get out. That is something we haven't managed to resolve at this point. I know, taking one off the street will hardly make a dent, but it's the intention and then maybe we do have to do it one at a time for a long time...and we could make good use of our facilities at Baxter and elsewhere to try and break this whole drug thing down. We have to work as a team and keep very clear in our minds what we want to achieve. I am sick and tired of hearing angry , loud, aggressive people screaming out at the Grote Street end of town scaring the living daylights out of everyone...but they will be screaming agony in a few months time and it is so cruel all round.

Mick Keelty on Drugs

"It can't be just as simple as saying no to drugs. It has to be more important work in drug education to ensure that future generations are not creating the sort of demand that we have in our country at the moment."

I am glad to see an article on this because the radio report was very good. The past government is gone and the article is a bit confused as to whether it's good Mick Keelty can say these things now or bad. Mick Keelty has worked tirelessly on our drug issues as a police commissioner and he talks a lot of sense. He is in the position to know a lot about supply and demand and how it has changed and he is in the position to hear form police officers about what is really going on out there. The have had some really tough stuff to deal with and their jobs have been dangerous and difficult. Given that Mick Keelty speaks clearly about how he sees it, then we are in a better position to grasp the reality. We are in a better position to do what the article promotes and that is, to stem the causes. To identify the causes and work on that. it gets it out in the open with something decent to discuss and people who are in possession of useful information can contribute to it. We all have to fix this. The quantities coming in are horrific and the damage goes right across our society. We all have to fix it.