10 directors and 31 deputy directors is management overkill. Bet they aren't in Afghanistan!

tone, cambridge,

Prohibition does not work.

drugs have been illiegal for years and the market is bigger than ever.

when will sombody in power stand up and have the courage to admit that current policy doesn't work .

It actually fuels all crime from petty theft right up to multinational organised crime.

keith, chester, uk

I really dont think the people advocating registered addicts getting free heroin have really thought this through to the end.
How do you become an addict if your not registered ?, oh yes through buying illegal drugs in the first place, heroin is a horrible soul/life destroying drug.

Richard , Chesterfield,

Simple solution, napalm the fields in Afganistan, pay the farmers twice the value of the crop from the money saved by the NHS and Police. Any other country starts up, same treatment. Death penalty for traffickers.
& for any liberals who dont like it, go meet the children and relatives of addicts!

Arthur, Brighton, ENGLAND

I have been advocating for over 20years that drugs should be made legal and supplied at very low cost through pharmacies to registered drug users. Also, a new prison needs building on a remote barren Scottish island where the input of drugs and escaping would be impossible. Min. sentence 10 years.

B J Deller, Marbella, Spain

If we're going to legalise drugs, we have to do it blanket fashion across Europe, locate it to certain areas (and no one will want it next to them - how about hospitals?) then put penalities on those selling it illegally without licence.

John, Knutsford, Cheshire

Anyone who gets off the tube in Camden on a friday night will get literally bombarded by at least a dozen of dealers as you leave the station...they don't even try to be subtle about it. There are police everywhere and they don't do ANYTHING...they can't be trying that hard.

Alexander , London, England

Lose the war on drugs and you lose the war on guns and knives. What sort of society will we become. If immigrants can illegally enter this country, there is nothing to stop the drugs following the same route and while the police and customs are unhappily filling in forms the country goes to pot.

steve tea, manchester, cheshire

It is hardly suprising - Police investigation from experience has all but disappeared - too often one person's words are enough to go on without seeking corroborative evidence for and against the complaint made.

Bring bakc realpolicing rather than hitting targets or concentrating on motorists.

Shaun O'Connell , Portsmouth, UK

concentrating on street dealers is a waste of time Mike, they are usually addicts and are replaced 10 minutes after they are arrested,however once again the mangers are looking after themselves and screwing it all up then blaming the troops on the ground.. and theres a moral problem, surprising?

Ian E, calgary, canada

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The death penalty is the only answer for pushing these poisons.
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When a tactic doesn't work, try harder is always the mantra of prohibition supporters. Of course legalisation would remove the criminal drug barons, they only exist because of prohibition.

Derek Williams, Nowich, UK

Of course we're losing the war against heroin trafficking. We're not fighting it.
The front line of the enemy is the dealer on the street. No dealer, no trafficking.
The 'Mr Bigs' are dependent on the dealers and can ultimately be tracked back up the chain. But problem no. 1 is on the street.

Mike Poulsen, Reading, Berkshire

Opium can be legally converted into morphine and traded across borders , under current international law. In combination with diamorphine maintainance programs for current addicts, this could provide a fair income for Afgahn farmers and deny traffickers the chance to profit form an illegal trade.

Richard, Maidstone, UK

Unbelievable - so how can we rely oin the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to go our way then ? Proof that the will is just not there in the justice system !!!!

Ian Payne, WALSALL,

If drugs were leagalised and sold through government run shops, this instanlty eliminates the need for vast sums of Police time and money being spent combating drug dealers and users
By selling them through government run shops there is the option to tax these products, raising revenue for the gov

mike, nottingham, england

SOCA are not the police.

Alan Kelly, Manchester, UK

People who advocate the legalisation of drugs are both naive - and dangerous.

Drug dealing is not going to vanish if drugs are made legal. Dealers are still going to supply cheap drugs .. since there is no risk to themselves.

The death penalty is the only answer for pushing these poisons.

Peter, Paris,

James, excellent idea but you must take it further; anyone being suppied by NHS must undergo rehabilitation until cured of addiction.
Any dealers, manufacturers, importers, growers of any illicit drug when found guilty of an offence MUST RECEIVE A MANDATORY 30 YEAR SENTENCE & no parole.

Graham Richards, Brisbane, Australia

Basic economics means that heroin seizures are ridiculous. If you seize enough to alter the market (unlikely) you increase the price of heroin, and the dealers get their money anyway. Richard and James are correct - the current policy funnels taxpayers money straight into the dealers pockets.

John H Woods, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

It would be better value for money if Soca were just to go to Afghanistan and Colombia and buy the drugs at source instead of trying to intercept them in the UK.

More sensible would just to legalise drugs and sack these staff. Their presence just raises the price of drugs making the dealers richer

richard mullens, London, Europe

Recognise, like most police officers, that it is a useless and dangerous exercise to make drugs illegal. Doing so merely drives addicts undercover and gives organised crime a rich income stream.

Instead, give registerd addicts heroin on the NHS, and so rob the pushers of their customer base.

James Murray, Liverpool,