ABSTRACT
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD 1994) noted that, within the Broome structure, the police were responsible for deciding how drug misuse and trafficking should best be tackled, presumably within force areas and according to local conditions. At the upper level the police, working alongside HM Customs, would be concerned with international crime, the international trafficker and the high-level national dealer. Middle-level enforcement, according to Broome, was to be directed at the organisations responsible for trafficking within national boundaries. In the British case, these would be via drug squads. Lower-level enforcement would be by uniformed street patrol officers. The former would be concerned with getting
the so-called ‘Mr Bigs’, the lower levels would be concerned with the street dealers. The ACMD also noted that concerted action (other than at the upper level) had been regarded as relatively unimportant (ibid. p. 12).
