POLICE DON'T AGREE WITH CRACK KITS PROPOSAL

Proposals to hand out crack cocaine kits to drug users, and to study
whether to set up safe drug consumption sites, drew fire from a senior
Toronto police officer as council considered a drug strategy for the
city.

"Distribution of crack kits is not necessarily harm reduction; it is
in fact going down a road of harm facilitation," said Staff Insp. Dan
Hayes yesterday. "It is just giving another tool to commit a criminal
act."

Hayes said police also don't favour the proposed safe use sites.
"There's absolutely nothing safe about consuming or injecting an
unknown substance into your body," he said.