Mike Hall MP

Labour Party | Weaver Vale

Mike Hall MP welcomes the new powers to seize the assets of drug dealers

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a new ten-year drug strategy.   At a Downing Street event the Prime Minister was joined by Jacqui Smith MP, Labour's Home Secretary, along with drugs treatment workers to discuss the new strategy.

The plans are to:

? Give police new powers to seize the assets of drug dealers to demonstrate that crime doesn’t pay
? Place a greater responsibility on drug users on benefits to get treatment and back in to work
? Increase the use of community sentences with a rehabilitation requirement
? Strengthen and extend international agreements to combat the flow of drugs to the UK
? Get drug-using families into treatment more quickly
? Develop support for drug treatment so that those who quit drugs are offered training and support in getting work and re-establishing their lives

Gordon Brown said that investment of almost £1 billion a year will be used to implement the key aims of the strategy: cutting drug-related crime; reducing the risk of drug use by young people; and enabling more drug users to rehabilitate and contribute to society.

Mike Hall MP said:-

“The Police are doing an excellent job in tackling drug dealing making a real difference here in Weaver Vale. I believe the new powers will enable the Police to build on their success and help to reduce drug related crimes”.