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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Scotland: Anger as police armed with drug-test kits swoop on clubbers 🌿Scotland: Anger as police armed with drug-test kits swoop on clubbers
NEW fears for civil liberties as officers swab hands of young people for traces of illegal substances.
POLICE are again accused of trampling over civil liberties after surprising clubbers with snap drug tests, we can reveal.
Customers queuing outside clubs have been approached by officers who swab their hands for traces of illegal substances.
Those who don’t co-operate are refused entry while those who test positive are questioned and face being searched and arrested.
Politicians and licensed trade bosses yesterday criticised the tactic as heavy-handed and a breach of young people’s rights.
Police Scotland have been under sustained criticism after a huge escalation of stop and search.
Last weekend, officers turned up at Club Tropicana in Aberdeen with a drug-detection machine called an itemiser and a sniffer dog.
They tested 100 people on the Friday and Saturday and a CCTV van monitored the club’s entrance.
Club boss Tony Cochrane...
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