used to live near this area (basically just the other side of the border in Caversham) and its a concern that TVP aren’t training their staff properly in drugs awareness whether cops, PCSOs or civillians its important nor did the PCSO have sufficient support to identify what she had found, nor make the constabulary look like a laughing stock. especially If/when the UK ever decides to decriminalise we are going to need clued up law enforcement even more as they will have to decide more what is problematic and what is safe use within the legal framework, not people who can’t tell a toy firework from a controlled substance.
Henley is not as safe a place as you might think, crime rates may be low but when they do happen the crimes are often violent domestics amongst the upper/middle classes which require a lot more brains to solve as they co-operate even less with the Police than the working classes. Plus the area is full of soft and hard drugs taken by a young and affluent middle class crowd and all the attendant problems. this foolishness diverts scarce resources from dealing with more important stuff, FFS even in the 1990s TVP had more sense than this.
it probably was one of my old stoner friends from round that way what dropped them anyway, you always get a load of duff ones in the pack – or they would have gone bang at some point (which would probably have got the area locked off and evacuated from a IED scare, which I dare say I’d have found to be even funnier 😉 )
