Drug offences

Drug offences

Drug offenses are the crime of the illegal manufacture, possession, use of or trade in (in particular recreational) drugs.

Description

Drug offences, although illegal, are in itself often not a major problem for society. Its spin-off effects (as mentioned under impacts) in contract, are. As the problem of drug use is not within the control of the urban planner, in this Securipedia we will regard this security issue as a source of other security issues cat can be addressed and not as an issue in itself. This approach does not mean that offences stemming from drug use should not be be dealt with at the source, i.e the drug use, but only that this is beyond the capabilities of the urban planner.

This is why we will only discuss this security issue in a most general sense and why we will not be able to give effective measures against it.

Impacts

Spin-off problems associated with drugs include:

• traffic congestion (due to roadside trading),
• noise (from traffic and people),
• disorderly conduct,
• begging,
• loitering,
• vandalism,
• littering (discarded drug paraphernalia),
• criminal damage to property,
• prostitution,
• robbery,
• residential and commercial burglary,
• theft from motor vehicles,
• fencing stolen goods,
• weapons offences, and
• assault and homicide.

Measures

No measures that are available to the urban planner and are effective to mitigate drug offences, are known. The measures that are at the disposal of the urban planner work on the spin-off problems. These can be found there.

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