ACPO

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ACPO CHEMICAL DIVERSION CONFERENCE 2007 The
Road Ahead
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• The Key Issues
• Scale of the problem?
• Why is it important?
• What does the future hold?
• Impact on people our communities?

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• Strategic Importance

• Focus on organised crime
• Harm reduction
• Responding to new threats

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Strategically Below the Radar

• Not seen as a significant problem
• Long term health issues

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Impact on Community Safety
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Mercurial
Designer drugs
Club scene
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International
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Terrorism
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• What next?
• The Road Ahead