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Criminality probed at Glasgow summit

A SUMMIT held in Glasgow to help tackle the ongoing crisis in deaths due to drug use in Scotland focused on criminality yesterday.

This debate came after Tory Police and Crime Minister Kit Malthouse branded practical solutions as a “distraction.”

Mr Malthouse said that international evidence for the success of “safe consumption rooms” is “mixed.”

Glasgow City Council has been appealing to the Home Office to allow a for safer “consumption room” in the city, in a bid to deal with the 1,187 drug deaths recorded in Scotland in 2018.

This appeal has consistently been rejected by the department.

But Mr Malthouse insisted there was a need for “radical thinking,” saying a “three-track approach” must be taken.

At the summit Mr Malthouse said that he could not remember a time when drugs were “so profoundly behind the many social problems we face as a country.”

The minister floated a potential meeting between Police Scotland forces in England, with another summit on the issue also on the horizon.

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