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Ice scourge second only to cannabis as the destructive drug soars in popularity in the city
THE destructive drug ice has become the drug of choice after cannabis with a shocking increase in use of over 280 per cent in parts of southwest Sydney, police chiefs have revealed today.
Chief Superintendent Peter Gillam said that in his command, Liverpool Local Area Command, there were 58 detections of ice in 2010 but that soared to 221 last year — an increase of 281 per cent.
“We are now considering ice to be the drug of choice,” Mr Gillam said.
He said it had moved into number two place after cannabis with heroin right down the list after prescription drugs.
A recent two-week drink driving exercise had caught more people using ice than being over the limit, Mr Gillam said.
The local area commanders from Liverpool, Fairfield, Cabramatta and Green Valley together with Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas gave the federal parliamentary joint committee into law enforcement a lesson in life on the frontline as they addressed the parliamentarians in Sydney.
The committee is inquiring specifically into the use of crystal methamphetamine of which the purest and most potent is ice.
Mr Kaldas said that one of the challenges fighting the ice drug war was that it is the only illicit drug in Australia that was both imported and produced locally in substantial quantities with the outlaw motor cycle gangs leading the supply chains.
“The bikies in particular are in it up to their necks,” he said.
Mr Kaldas said statewide the use of ice had more than doubled from 22 per cent of all drugs in 2010 to 50 per cent in 2013.
But crime had gone down as ice addicts are more likely to be employed and able to afford it at a cost of up to $50 a hit — at least at first.
In Fairfield, where 18 clandestine ice labs have been shut down since 2013, LAC commander Superintendent Peter Lennon said the number of arrests for ice possession had risen from 27 in 2010/2011 to 87 in 2014/2015 — an increase of 220 per cent.
The committee is sitting today at the Liverpool Catholic Club.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...rity-in-the-city/story-fni0cx12-1227461441310
THE destructive drug ice has become the drug of choice after cannabis with a shocking increase in use of over 280 per cent in parts of southwest Sydney, police chiefs have revealed today.
Chief Superintendent Peter Gillam said that in his command, Liverpool Local Area Command, there were 58 detections of ice in 2010 but that soared to 221 last year — an increase of 281 per cent.
“We are now considering ice to be the drug of choice,” Mr Gillam said.
He said it had moved into number two place after cannabis with heroin right down the list after prescription drugs.
A recent two-week drink driving exercise had caught more people using ice than being over the limit, Mr Gillam said.
The local area commanders from Liverpool, Fairfield, Cabramatta and Green Valley together with Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas gave the federal parliamentary joint committee into law enforcement a lesson in life on the frontline as they addressed the parliamentarians in Sydney.
The committee is inquiring specifically into the use of crystal methamphetamine of which the purest and most potent is ice.
Mr Kaldas said that one of the challenges fighting the ice drug war was that it is the only illicit drug in Australia that was both imported and produced locally in substantial quantities with the outlaw motor cycle gangs leading the supply chains.
“The bikies in particular are in it up to their necks,” he said.
Mr Kaldas said statewide the use of ice had more than doubled from 22 per cent of all drugs in 2010 to 50 per cent in 2013.
But crime had gone down as ice addicts are more likely to be employed and able to afford it at a cost of up to $50 a hit — at least at first.
In Fairfield, where 18 clandestine ice labs have been shut down since 2013, LAC commander Superintendent Peter Lennon said the number of arrests for ice possession had risen from 27 in 2010/2011 to 87 in 2014/2015 — an increase of 220 per cent.
The committee is sitting today at the Liverpool Catholic Club.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...rity-in-the-city/story-fni0cx12-1227461441310
