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'P' Research Highlights Labour Failure
'P' Research Highlights Labour Failure
Tuesday 5 Oct 2004
Dr Muriel Newman - Press Releases - Crime & Justice
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today claimed that the recent police-commissioned Massey University research on methamphetamine use had confirmed Labour's dismal failure to arrest the drug epidemic sweeping the country.
"Labour's failure is demonstrated in a lack of police funding to hunt down meth laboratories, a backlog of clan labs awaiting analysis by ESR, and a court system so clogged that offenders are left free to manufacture more `P' while their cases move through the justice system at a snail's pace.
"The fact is that methamphetamines have become a massive problem for New Zealand society. Teachers, employers and police are left to confront the damage cause by this problem - which is raging out of control because of the sheer incompetence of this soft-on-crime Labour Government," Dr Newman said.
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