Just So Long As That Scent Doesn’t Emanate From A Black Child, Eh?

Britain's top police chiefs today urge their officers to crack down on cannabis. The country’s longest-serving chief constable admits the smell of the drug is a ‘sign of crime and disorder’ which makes even him ‘feel unsafe’.

Why should they do their job when this is what happens when they do?

Sir Andy Marsh, who leads the College of Policing, said frontline officers should ‘do something about it’.He is backed by Greater Manchester Police Chief Sir Stephen Watson and Merseyside Chief Constable Serena Kennedy.

Strsnge that the Metropolitan Police didn't also weigh in, isn't it? 

Sir Andy, who is the officer in charge of police standards, said: ‘In my community, my kids are too frightened to use the bus stop because it always stinks of cannabis.’ He told the Mail ‘policing is about creating an environment that people feel safe in’ and said: ‘I’m speaking from personal experience and people I talk to, if I walk through a town, city, or even village centre and I smell cannabis, it does actually have an impact on how safe I feel.

So, there seems to be at least three sensible coppers in the College of Policing, but I fear they won't get the backing for this that they need. Certainly not in London: 

Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan has called for the decriminalisation of possession when it involves small amounts of the drug.

Madness.