Conflicting legislative discourses and police programs in controlling drug abuse

Anti-narcotics criminal policy is confronted with conflict of discourses such as zero tolerance, mitigation which aforementioned issues have suggested different methods in order to combat with drugs. The purpose of this paper is to review, conflict between discourses of legislator and Police measures against drugs.

The present research is applied in terms of purpose functional, in terms of implementation method, analytical and in terms of data collection, documentary in which information related to books, laws, dissertations, articles and Internet resources have been collected and examined.

Legislative criminal policy, which is the main base of the fight against crimes, has not been sufficiently coherent with regard to drug abuse, and it has been caused police measures implemented in various missions to collect high risk addicts and drug dealers to be less successful. Incoherence and conflict of discourses are also due to the multiplicity of legislative authorities related to counter-narcotics, traditionalism and lack of expertise and the application of political considerations in law-making.

According to the conflict of discourses in the fight against drugs, by defining a coherent criminal policy for the law enforcement force, police should act immediately upon encountering any types of drug-related crimes and do not wait for committing a crime in connection with drugs, in high crime areas must be treated decisively with any minor violations that later lead to drug crimes.