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Drugs: A phoney war

Police Oracle 15/01/2020
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Neil Woods is a former Detective Sergeant with Derbyshire Constabulary. He is now a board member of LEAP (Law Enforcement Action Partnership) in the US and the UK. He is the best selling author of Good Cop Bad War and Drug Wars with JS Rafaeli.

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