Police Headquarter Frankfurt am Main

Crime Directorate – K 64 - / Drug CommissionerAdickesallee 70

60322 Frankfurt am Main - Germany -

Thomas Zosel

Detective ChiefInvestigation Team Leader / Liaison Officer for Drug Services

Phone: +49 (0) 69 – 755 56410

Fax: +49 (0) 69 – 755 56409E-Mail: thomas.zosel@polizei.hessen.de

© 2011 by Thomas Zosel

Frankfurt am Main

Harm reduction Services for injecting drugUsers

Perspective of Police

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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 670. 000 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.

City Profiles

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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

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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.

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Chronology1960 →→→→ 1975

From student protests to open scenes – From

“Marijuana meadow”, from abstinence orientation and

police repression

1975 →→→→ 1990

Chaos all around. Conflicts and changes

(liberal-restrictive), increasing problems

1989 →→→→ 1992

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 1.000 addicts the day and night. The availability

of heroin rose and prices fell.

Adapted from:

Jürgen Weimer

Municipal OfficeFor Drug PolicyFrankfurt am Main

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1988 →→→→ 1989

Working group. New guidelines. “Monday Round”

- Living with drug addicts -

1992

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)

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Installation of the Monday Round with the following person:

Chair: City council (wo)man for public health

Deputy Chair: 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)

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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.

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The drug policy of the City of Frankfurt am Main

4 pillar Model

1.

Prevention

2.

Crisis andSurvival

3.

Drug-freeprograms

4.

Repression

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Aims

1. Prevent drug use2. Harm reduction and social (re) integration3. Additional support to quit drugs in order

to lead to a drug-free life4. Struggle against criminality reduction

of public nuisance

Target groups

1. Young persons (up to 28 years)2. Addicts and users with problematic patterns of consumption3. People who want to quit using drugs4. Dealers, addicts with criminal energy and people that cause

public nuisance

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Since 2004 police and social program “OSSIP"(Pro Aktive Sozial Work Security Work Intervention and Prevention) -For a living together in Frankfurt/M. -

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"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

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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

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“The future is dedicated to the fight against drugs. It's not thequestion "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

For the Drug Division (K 64) and my Deputy Mr. Jürgen Penschke and myself, it´́́́s very important:

Thomas Zosel