SNP delivering in government

The SNP has today welcomed figures from the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency's (SCDEA) annual report which has shown that a record amount of illegal class A drugs have been taken off Scotland's streets.
 
The report showed that, the Agency seized 1,376.5 kilograms of illegal drugs with a street value of £33 million as well as taking a record £1.26 million in hard cash from the pockets of criminals - six times the amount seized last year (£207,000).

Welcoming the report, Glasgow MSP Humza Yousaf MSP said: "This is very welcome news. 
 
"Todays figures show the agency is doing an excellent job in keeping drugs out of our communities and off our streets.
 
"The record £1.26 million retrieved will now be invested through the cashback for communities scheme, making a direct positive impact on our young people and their future.
 
"Serious organised crime is a blight on our society and I am delighted that this SNP Government is tackling the problem head on by placing extra investment on the frontline and putting in place a national drug strategy to help those with addictions.
 
"After years of the same problems we have to think differently about how to keep young people away from drugs and the SCDEAs work with schools, alerting our young people to the environmental and social devastation caused by cocaine in communities around the world is a new and innovative approach making young people consider the wider impact of their behaviour and to think twice about taking cocaine.
 
"With record numbers of police on our streets and the lowest crime rate since the 1970s there is a real difference in communities across Scotland, thanks to the actions of the SNP Government."