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It's time to change our drug dog policies to catch dealers, not low-level users at public events

  • Written by Caitlin Hughes, Senior Research Fellow - Criminologist and Drug Policy Researcher, UNSW
It's time to change our drug dog policies to catch dealers, not low-level users at public eventsThe use of drug dogs leads to riskier drug-taking at festivals.Shutterstock

In the early 2000s New South Wales became the first Australian state to introduce drug detection dogs for policing, with the aim of “targeting drug supply” and “attacking the root causes of drugs” in society. It gave police powers to use specially...

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