Pubdate: Tue, 27 Feb 2001
Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Copyright: 2001 News Limited
Contact:  2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, NSW, 2010
Fax: (02) 9288-2300
Website: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/
Author: David S. Bannerman
Note: Headline supplied by newshawk

POLICE ARE WINNING WAR ON DRUGS

More strength to Piers Akerman for swimming against the tide of public 
opinion and believing, so far as stopping the supply of heroin is 
concerned, that where there is a will there is a way ("A victory we all 
should celebrate," Daily Telegraph, February 22).

His opponents say: "Stop the heroin and the junkies turn to cocaine and speed."

Are they not aware of the record hauls that police have been making of 
these two last mentioned substances? Do they not realise that the snowball 
of modern detection methods is getting bigger, smarter and faster, causing 
an avalanche from which drug users and pushers cannot hide?

Just as the atomic bomb, at that time new technology, hastened the end of 
World War II, in like manner, better computerised banking, video 
surveillance, X-rays and sniffing machines are hastening the end of the war 
against drugs. We should applaud every victory that our hard-working police 
achieve.

David S. Bannerman, Rouse Hill
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