ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the challenges of day-to-day police work and describes the changes in operational policing of drug-related crimes. When people have been arrested and charged with Conspiracy to Supply Controlled Drugs, usually Class A type such as heroin, crack cocaine and ecstasy, much work is involved in the preparation of the file for court. Drug dealers realised that they were making things easier for the police by keeping their drugs, money, wrapping paper and workings in the one premises. It was commonplace when a house was raided by police to find large amounts of cash, ‘wraps’ as well as rough calculations where the suspect had clearly been reckoning up how much he was either owed or stood to make. Continued negotiations which take account of the issues surrounding the use of agent provocateur, will normally result in the arrest of entire teams of dealers in a club.
