Whos coming through the Criminal Justice System

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Whos coming through the Criminal Justice
System ?
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Criminal Justice Drug Services

• Drug Treatment Testing Orders
• Criminal Justice Substance Misuse Project
• Arrest Referral
• Mandatory Drug Testing Pilot

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Headlines from local paper

• Probation for vulnerable Aberdeen man
• North-east drug runner is jailed -broch man
  inadvertently led police to stash of illegal
  substances worth more than 55,000
• City man killed in drug den was trying
• to rob supplier

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• Strike teams target Aberdeen drug dealers
• 100 city homes raided in drug blitz
• Deadly weapons seized in drug blitz
• Shoplifting on the rise in Aberdeen

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• Teacher in court on drug charge
• Cancer OAP's 14,000 drugs stash
• Pupils caught with drugs at Aberdeen
• Grammars Halloween ball

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Recent Trends

• Increase in the number of females
• Increase in the average age group
• Increase in poly drug use
• Increase in the alcohol and drug use
• Increase in family members involved in drug use
• Increase in referrals for DTTO
• Decrease in referrals for the rest of CJ Drug
  services

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Who are we missing from the services ?

• Women involved in prostitution
• Young males involved in prostitution
• Young people age 16 20
• Recreational drug users

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What do we know ?

• Drug use and crime are on the increase
• Drug use has no boundaries
• Breakdown in families and communities
• Police Intelligence is leading to more arrests
• Services are struggling to target appropriate
  resources

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What works ?

• Coerced treatment v Voluntary Treatment
• Accountability and partnership working

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Conclusion

• Past
• Present
• Future