Cops, drugs and the community: establishing consultative harm reduction structures in two Western Australian locations

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Cops, drugs and the community: establishing consultative harm reduction structures in two Western Australian locations

In Australia a police project incorporating four parallel trials was established to test a new model of illicit drug law enforcement, which gives greater emphasis to harm reduction at the community level. The project was based on a community-policing model developed in the United Kingdom and involve...

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Main Authors:	Midford, Richard, Acres, J., Lenton, Simon, Loxley, Wendy, Boots, K.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2002
Subjects:	drug - health aspects - legal aspects - crime - social aspects - harm reduction - policy - community policing
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10631

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