r/unitedkingdom • u/RandomUsername1604 • 29d 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/RandomUsername1604 29d ago

Yeah there was a report showing that the police still like to use 'smell of cannabis' to stop and search young black and asian males disproportionately, so I guess its only effectively decriminalised when the cops can't be arsed with the paperwork.

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u/After-Anybody9576 29d ago

That report presumably not aware that police policy is not to stop based on that alone as per CoP guidance?

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u/limpingdba 29d ago

Like that ever stopped them. Walk past a cop stinking of weed and when you're searched, tell then it's against their policy. See what happens.

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u/SmileAndLaughrica 29d ago

Where do you live?? In London I think I see police at least once a week

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u/Regular_mills 28d 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 28d 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 28d ago

That's BS.

Police are constantly patrolling central Manchester.

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u/Ivashkin 28d ago

I wasn't in central manchester.

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u/dmmeyourfloof 28d 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 25d 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)

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