Scottish Police Officers Get Help on Drug Recognition
Two Scottish police officers were trying to find a course on drug recognition when they hooked up with the World Wide Web. What they found was the home page that the Torrance Police Department started about its four-day course called “Drug ID and Influence Recognition,” now in its sixth year.
It was just what Inspectors Paul Fleming and David Stewart with the Strathclyde Police Force in Glasgow, Scotland, were looking for. What they needed next was a way to get to the United States to take the course. So they applied for a $17,000 grant and got it.
This week, the two Scots have been training with about 25 California police officers learning how to identify different drugs, drug paraphernalia and how people act on drugs.
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