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Cannabis growers in West Yorkshire will continue to feel the full weight of the law.
That’s the pledge from a West Yorkshire Police chief amid growing concerns about a relaxed attitude to drugs by police forces.
But West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson vowed that tackling drugs production and supply - at all levels of operation - remained a priority in the region and extra resources have been established to flush out dealers.
Mr Burns-Williamson’s comments come as his counterpart at Durham, Ron Hogg said his force will no longer actively pursue cannabis smokers and small-scale growers in order to prioritise its resources against more serious crime.
West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson
Mr Hogg wants to see users of the class B drug in County Durham and Darlington entered onto a course to deal with their habit rather than being arrested.
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