[size=+1]UN: drug gangs controlling parts of British cities[/size]
Parts of British cities are becoming no-go areas where drugs gangs are effectively in control, a United Nations drugs chief said today.
Professor Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said there was ''a vicious cycle of social exclusion and drugs problems and fractured communities'' in cities such as Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
The development of ''no-go areas'' was being fuelled by threats such as social inequality, migration and celebrities normalising drug abuse, he warned.
Helping marginalised communities with drugs problems ''must be a priority'', he said. ''We are looking at social cohesion, the social disintegration and illegal drugs.
'In many societies around the world, whether developed or developing, there are communities within the societies which develop which become no-go areas.
''Drug traffickers, organised crime, drug users, they take over. They will get the sort of governance of those areas.
''Examples are in Brazil, Mexico, in the United States, in the UK, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and therefore it is no good to have only law enforcement, which always shows it does not succeed.''
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...angs-controlling-parts-of-British-cities.html
Parts of British cities are becoming no-go areas where drugs gangs are effectively in control, a United Nations drugs chief said today.
Professor Hamid Ghodse, president of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said there was ''a vicious cycle of social exclusion and drugs problems and fractured communities'' in cities such as Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.
The development of ''no-go areas'' was being fuelled by threats such as social inequality, migration and celebrities normalising drug abuse, he warned.
Helping marginalised communities with drugs problems ''must be a priority'', he said. ''We are looking at social cohesion, the social disintegration and illegal drugs.
'In many societies around the world, whether developed or developing, there are communities within the societies which develop which become no-go areas.
''Drug traffickers, organised crime, drug users, they take over. They will get the sort of governance of those areas.
''Examples are in Brazil, Mexico, in the United States, in the UK, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and therefore it is no good to have only law enforcement, which always shows it does not succeed.''
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...angs-controlling-parts-of-British-cities.html
