UK: A Fresh Face with Fresh Ideas
Britain’s youngest candidate for police and crime commissioner has a radical plan for slashing drug crime – stop prosecuting drug users. Ben Twomey is standing as an independent in Warwickshire and, although he’s only 22 years old, observers are already saying that he may be one of the best qualified candidates in the country.
Twomey is a protégé of Durham commissioner Ron Hogg, who weathered a tabloid storm last summer when it emerged his office had told the local cannabis club not to worry about being arrested for smoking or growing weed. Soon after, Hogg’s policy was vindicated when Durham constabulary was rated the country’s top force.
Now Rugby-born Twomey wants to take that radical plan to his home county. And with other PCC candidates up and down the country singing from a similar hymn sheet, it could be that the first progress towards an evidence-based drugs policy will come...
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