Signs of drugs
Signs of drug use:
- Tearing cigarette packs or cards on the table
- Removing the padding of the seats
- Keeping small packages made of paper or metal sheets
- Throwing candy and chocolate papers in toilets
- Paying with rounded banknotes
- Giving paper money with blood stains on it
- Having objects such as straws
- Leaving bloodstains on toilets and clean surfaces
- Carry injector
- Leaving a spoon in the toilet
- Leaving scorched pieces of paper and metal sheet
Signs of dealing:
- A person that stays a while and has a lot of friends that only stay for short periods
- A person making frequent trips to the toilets, garden or car park followed by different people at the same time
- A person seeming to hide in corners talking very quietly
- A person giving small packages to others
- Lots of hand or body contact with members of the same sex
- A person waiting outside the business who is closely interested in young people
Dealers are not identifiable by appearance – they may look very respectable.
