Police Federation Shouldn't Oppose Drug. Without It Two Folk In Wales Would Be Dead

Top cop slams resistance to kitting out all cops with life-saving anti-OD spray

- Mark McGivern

Scots cops have been urged to back the roll-out of an overdose prevention drug after two lives were saved in Wales.

Arfon Jones, the police commissioner for North Wales, has slammed the Scottish Police Federation for opposing plans to issue all officers with naloxone.

Jones has hailed the use of the opiate reversal drug after two officers used nasal spray to revive two overdose victims in Flintshire.

He claims the SPF – which argues that naloxone provision is a stealthy way of lumping extra jobs on officers – is turning its back on the first principle of UK policing – saving lives. Scottish officers are currently being trained to use the nasal sprays ahead of a six-month trial in the east of Glasgow, Falkirk and Dundee.