{"id":179,"date":"2005-04-08T23:08:56","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T23:08:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-04-08T23:08:56","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T23:08:56","slug":"police-powers-sentencing-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Police Powers; sentencing; courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Drugs Bill received Royal Assent today.<br \/>The <strong>Drugs Act 2005<\/strong> brings in powers to:&nbsp;<br \/>&gt; &nbsp;give the police powers to test for class A drugs on arrest and require those who test positive to attend a drugs assessment and follow-up appointment; <br \/>&gt; make dealing near a school, or using children as couriers for drugs or drugs-related money, an aggravating factor in sentencing;&nbsp;<br \/>&gt; introduce a new presumption that those caught with more drugs than reasonable for personal use intend to supply, which carries tougher penalties;&nbsp;<br \/>&gt; give the police tougher powers to tackle dealers who swallow their drugs or hide them in body cavities &#8211; the police will be able to order an x-ray or ultrasound, and magistrates will be able to remand suspected swallowers in custody for up to eight days;&nbsp;<br \/>&gt; tackle the open selling of &#8216;magic mushrooms&#8217; by clarifying the law that fresh mushrooms, as well as prepared ones, are illegal; and <br \/>&gt; establish a new drug intervention order to run alongside anti-social behaviour orders to address drug misuse by people committing anti-social acts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Drugs Bill received Royal Assent today.The Drugs Act 2005 brings in powers to:&nbsp;&gt; &nbsp;give the police powers to test for class A drugs on arrest and require those who test positive to attend a drugs assessment and follow-up appointment; &gt; make dealing near a school, or using children as couriers for drugs or drugs-related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}