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 - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom