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1 B1 Harm reduction Services for injecting drug Users Perspective of Police Frankfurt am Main Police Headquarter Frankfurt am Main Crime Directorate K 64 - / Drug Commissioner Adickesallee Frankfurt am Main - Germany - Thomas Zosel Detective Chief Investigation Team Leader / Liaison Officer for Drug Services 2011 by Thomas Zosel Phone: +49 (0) Fax: +49 (0) thomas.zosel@polizei.hessen.de

2 Slide 1 B1 Thema: Schadensreduzierung von DrogenkonsumentenInnen - Perspektive für Polizei - Aufbau Referat: 1) Darstellung Festnahme mit Abschluss Vorführung 2) Kurzer Hinweis auf Heroinprojekt FFM 3) "Frankfurter Weg" i.z.m Polizei 4) Warnsystem / Qualitätskontrolle 5) Ausblick Zukunft (Festigen Vertrauen / Altenheime für KonsumentenInnen?!? 6) Danke für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit B704012, 03/02/2011

3 B1 City Profiles Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in Hessen. Here, more than 400 banks have their headquarters, including the European Central Bank. The City has residents and 43 local municipalities. The so called "Frankfurt Resolution" was introduced as a drug policy document in 1990 at the 1st Conference of European cities in the centre of drug trafficking, as the model Frankfurter way". Frankfurt is often described as the city that has solved its problems with the open drug scene pretty effective. 2

4 Slide 2 B1 - Darstellung Festnahme / weitere Vorgehensweise bis Vorführung Haftrichter B704012, 03/02/2011

5 B4 Treatment of drug addicts Arrested person who committed a crime Drug Addiction (Yes / No) If No / Delivery and custody If Yes / Substitution by Methadone clinic Transfer to prison with note of drug addiction Continuation of treatment in custody with substitute 3

6 Slide 3 B4 - Darstellung Festnahme / weitere Vorgehensweise bis Vorführung Haftrichter B704012, 03/02/2011

7 Official commitment At the Frankfurt am Main police Station (Headquarter) a detained with a drug addiction may not be taken to the detention cells / prison without prior medical treatment (the provision of methadone). This circumstance is obligatory for considering a person's sensivity to imprisonment. 4

8 Chronology From student protests to open scenes From Marijuana meadow, from abstinence orientation and police repression Chaos all around. Conflicts and changes (liberal-restrictive), increasing problems Adapted from: Jürgen Weimer Municipal Office For Drug Policy Frankfurt am Main In the late 1980s the city experienced a dramatic increase in social depression. With misery, deaths and overdose, with 147 deaths in 1991 the city reached the limit of what it could handle. The open scene Taunusanlage in a city park belt, was visited by up to addicts the day and night. The availability of heroin rose and prices fell. 5

9 Working group. New guidelines. Monday Round - Living with drug addicts Final closure of the Taunusanlage with enhancement of harm Reduction facilities: - Discussions User rooms, counselling services - No tolerance for drug scenes - Return of people to their original place - Coordination of activities and management (Measures became a combination of prevention, treatment and harm reduction. Reducing of the repression on drug users) 6

10 Installation of the Monday Round with the following person: Chair: Deputy Chair: City council (wo)man for public health Drug coordination office Members: Deputy police commissioner (till 2000); 2 high ranking police officers; prosecutor district court; prosecutor high court; heads of municipal officers for: public health, public order, juvenile and social affairs, prevention council (since 2000), state officer for school affairs; 2 elected members from NGO s, vice president chamber of commerce (till 1994) 7

11 Installation of the Friday Round (1989) with the following person: (Direct implementation of decisions at the operational level) Chair: Municipal Office for Drug Policy Members: Police directors of precincts; police directors of special forces; management of drug aid facilities; heads of sections of municipal offices for public order and juvenile and social affairs; delegations of the Mobile projects. 8

12 The drug policy of the City of Frankfurt am Main 4 pillar Model Prevention Crisis and Survival Drug-free programs Repression 9

13 Aims 1. Prevent drug use 2. Harm reduction and social (re) integration 3. Additional support to quit drugs in order to lead to a drug-free life 4. Struggle against criminality reduction of public nuisance Target groups 1. Young persons (up to 28 years) 2. Addicts and users with problematic patterns of consumption 3. People who want to quit using drugs 4. Dealers, addicts with criminal energy and people that cause public nuisance 10

14 Since 2004 police and social program OSSIP"(Pro Aktive Sozial Work Security Work Intervention and Prevention) - For a living together in Frankfurt/M. - "In order to achieve a trouble-free coexistence between drug users and citizens, police and the office from public order in the future will strictly struggle against: - public drug use - scene formation in the street - drug dealing - disturbances and - dirt 11

15 Implementation of Police drug warning system (2010) (Goal: minimizing deaths and analyzing in order to come up with warnings of available drugs) Monitoring of drug quality on the scene with consequences: - Seizure of questionable drugs - Toxicological Analysis of drugs - Feedback on the quality to the facilities and drug users - Notice to paramedics and rescue personnel to be able to offer specific treatment 12

16 For the Drug Division (K 64) and my Deputy Mr. Jürgen Penschke and myself, it s very important: The future is dedicated to the fight against drugs. It's not the question "when " a person comes into contact with drugs, but what reaction does this person show when drugs are offered to him/her. The challenge is to make people "strong" and to aggressively elucidate people about drugs. People's rationality must prevail over their curiosity. Prevention is the challenge of the future Thank you for your Attention!!!! Jürgen Penschke Thomas Zosel 13