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Reading police have revealed plans to deal with drug use at this weekend's music festival, with plans to target dealers over users at the Richmond Avenue site.
Local police will implement an 'honesty bin' at the entrance to the festival, where anyone caught with class B or C drugs would be asked to dispose of the illegal substances before organisers decide whether they are permitted entry to the festival. Already, police reports say eight people have been arrested on site with intent to sell drugs at the festival.
"It's a condition of entry to the festival site for ticket buyers that they submit to random searches," says Super Intendent Stuart Greenfield of Reading police in a statement. "If they are found in possession of drugs, if it's a small bit of class B or C, cannabis for example, they are asked to dispose of it in an honesty bin, then Festival Republic will decide whether or not to admit that person.
"If it's a larger quantity or it's suspected to be class A the police will be called and we will deal with those people as appropriate."
"We can have a much greater effect if we go after the suppliers and the dealers rather than users because actually if you cut it off you are tackling the cause rather than the symptoms then."
Police at Reading festival will crack down on those supplying drugs this weekend
Festival goers are in for a damp weekend, after the UK weather took a turn for the worse ahead of the event, and its sister show in Leeds. The show is headlined by Eminem, Green Day and Biffy Clyro - who top the bill for the first time at a major UK festival.
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