Priority given to activities monitored
Police work is dominated by targets and performance indicators, but the lone drugs-related measure in the National Policing Plan and the Police Performance Assessment Framework focuses on public perceptions of the prevalence of drug-related crime.
There is therefore less incentive than there should be for officers at this level to tackle drug dealing and other drug-related crimes. Drug use and dealing very often go unreported and police officers can choose not to investigate individual instances.

Targeting low-level dealing would probably most effectively meet the government’s objective of improving public perceptions of drug crime. (In general, all that the public will perceive is low-level dealing, as the higher levels remain more carefully hidden.)

However, it is a time-consuming and often unrewarding task and without specific targets there is little incentive to give it any degree of priority
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Drugs Policy in the UK »Drugs Policy in the UK
What drugs policy measures are open to the UK? »What drugs policy measures are open to the UK?
Reduce supply of drugs »Reduce supply of drugs
Drugs performance indicators for police »Drugs performance indicators for police
Priority given to activities monitored
More targets than this analysis suggests »More targets than this analysis suggests
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