r/unitedkingdom • u/RandomUsername1604 • 26d ago

Police officers say cannabis is effectively ‘decriminalised’ in the UK .

https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/police-cannabis-decriminalised-survey/

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u/PurpleEsskay 26d ago

In London

Theres your issue. Most places are not London. London works very differently to the rest of the country, where most of us live. You'll rarely see a police officer, and you certainly wont see them walking anywhere.

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u/Regular_mills 25d ago

Yet I live in a town in the midlands and I see police weekly and they do in fact walk. You can’t generalise the whole country based on anecdotes.

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u/Ivashkin 25d ago

When I lived in Manchester, the only time we saw the police was during the first 2 weeks of lockdown when they set up a mini-FOB outside the post office and began questioning people on where they were going and if they really needed to go to the shops or not. When the government told the police to back off, they packed up and were never seen again.

In my new town, we only see them at big events (fireworks, Christmas lights etc).

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u/dmmeyourfloof 25d ago

That's BS.

Police are constantly patrolling central Manchester.

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u/Ivashkin 25d ago

I wasn't in central manchester.

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u/dmmeyourfloof 25d ago

I've seen them regularly in Radcliffe, Prestwich, Bury, Whitefield, Didsbury, Trafford, Central Manchester, Bolton and more besides.

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u/SoylentDave 22d ago

I lived in one of the shittiest bits of Manchester and while I only occasionally saw foot patrols, there were plenty of vehicles and plastic police (pre Covid)