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Ex-cop tells of drug use

06nov03

A FORMER Sydney police officer has told the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) she became involved in recreational drug use while a serving officer.

Melanie Kim Wilson, 29, who recently resigned from the NSW Police Service, was based at City Central Police Station when she started taking so-called party drugs, including ecstasy, she told the commission today.
Hearings into Project Abelia, conducted by retired Supreme Court judge Mervyn Finlay, began today in Sydney.

Project Abelia was launched in August in the wake of a number of cases of police use of illicit drugs or abuse of prescription drugs.

Under examination by Counsel Assisting the Commission David Staehli, Ms Wilson said drug taking had been prevalent in the nightclub scene which she frequented.

She agreed that as a serving police officer she had been at risk of being caught.

"I suppose it's just part of my lifestyle," Ms Wilson told the commission.

"Unfortunately the risk wasn't great enough for me to stop it."

Ms Wilson agreed drug taking was inappropriate behaviour for a police officer, but said she was prepared to deal with the consequences.

She said ecstasy had been her drug of choice but she also used speed, cocaine and "Special K" – the street name for the drug ketamine, an anaesthetic commonly used for animals.

On occasions, Ms Wilson said she had taken cocaine at the home of two other police officers who were also expected to give evidence today.

Ms Wilson, who transferred during her career from City Central Police Station to the northern beaches area, told the commission she had sometimes bought up to 10 ecstasy tablets at a time and would occasionally give these to friends at cost price.

She conceded that this technically represented the supply of drugs.

The hearing is continuing.
 
^^why should we be suprised, what makes a police officer any different to any of us?
 
Why do I get the feeling Ms Wilson would likely make a fine police officer if it wasn't for the drugs issue?

I wonder how many police officers discover party drugs and drop out of their career when/ if the choice has to be made between drug use and that job. perhaps that's why there are so many ex coppers who are now security officers...=D shit, better watch it or I'll get my ass kicked :o

A close friend joined the police force after his father and grandfather had decided his fate would be to continue family tradition. He also smoked dope and was a rather wild teenager. There were times when police would go looking for him at a party as he never showed up for work. He'd hide in the closet. It probably wasn't just the pot thing (doesn't smoke these days) rather than just him being wrong for the job. He finally threw in the towel when he was told to arrest an old drunk in the mall. He looked at the guy and felt sorry for him so he told the guy to disappear and went back to station and said something like "I'm not arresting that poor old guy, he's harmless, I told him to go home" He knew then and there from the faces gazing at him that family tradition was about to be broken... :\

He ended up instead going into security after 10 years of full contact Kung Fu training 8(
 
they see nothing but black and white. and the timing in their case selective.
 
Exactly JayJ :)

I agree phase_dancer - she'd probably be a fine police officer. The problem is publicity. To expand on that idea, I think that if the police force were ever branded 'hypocrites', especially in the context of the very laws they enforce... Well, someone responsible for police administration would be neck deep in shit.
 
^^ ...and I guess apollo that even if drug use were somehow acceptable, no officer in charge would want a team of empathic people who may be a little slow on the draw 8(

Mind you, I think we'd find more there would be a higher incidence of arrests involving gunfire on tuesdays ;)
 
Lol well there not exactly gunna pat her on the back and ask her to hook them up now are they ?....i think youll find shell get a decent punishment...if not severe....what she did damages the whole police forces image...if they dont punish her it looks like double standards...no one is above the law....unless your father is a politician and u get done drink driving
 
Police recruiting tends to target new recruits in the 18-35 age bracket, if those people haven't experimented with party drugs in their youth and pick it up later in their twenties then they're more likely to end up like Ms Wilson here.

Sad story nonetheless, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who's run into serving police officers using party drugs, at parties in the last few years. Individuals who otherwise are excellent police officers.
 
So she uses a few drugs, and parties a bit. I don't consider this a huge issue, but she's going to get fucked hard because of this quote:
... she had sometimes bought up to 10 ecstasy tablets at a time and would occasionally give these to friends at cost price.

She conceded that this technically represented the supply of drugs.
Even though she probably never considered herself a capital-D Dealer, in the face of this investigation she's going to be made out to look like one in front of everyone she knows. It reminds me of an old discussion we had about what qualifies you for a 'Dealers License'. ie., How many friends can you help out before you're classed as a "dealer"??

BigTrancer ;)
 
Well, just going to say atleast she had the guts to fess up.
Says something about her.

Reminds me of the time when I told my parrents about drug use, it was hard but had to be done

I think this officer is in the same situation I was so many months ago
 
you are only saying she would be a fine police officer because she would by sympathetic towards users....

you have NO idea what kind of character she is.
 
indeed. i do totally agree with the above sentiments, but i also would prefer to have some people with reasonably liberal views within the police force, even if their views do contradict the actual law. perhaps some might even have the power to make some kind of ideological change.

probably not of course, and most police force members who break the law (in cases like this) are just horrible fucking hypocrites, but it's not *always* entirely black and white...
 
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