Police Leave Drugs With 10 Year-old Girl

A drugs squad officer left a packet of speed in a 10-year-old schoolgirl's bag after a drugs awareness lesson in the UK.

The police officer put three packets of the drug in her bag but after the demonstration took back only two, reports a local paper.

Kia Butterfield did not find the amphetamine until she got back to her home. Her mom, Amanda, said: "I still can't get my head around this - an officer gave my daughter a bag of hard drugs. If your kids aren't safe from drugs on a day out with police, when are they safe?"

"My three-year-old was playing at the table where those drugs were. She could have mistaken it for a bag of sherbet and swallowed it. That could have been fatal".

The officer put the drugs in Kia's bag to demonstrate how sniffer dogs worked during a seminar for primary schoolchildren at a camp.

The youngster said "I thought he had taken out all the drugs when he handed my bag back. I got home and put it on the kitchen table near where my sister was playing. An hour later I went to get a pencil and found this plastic bag with powder in. I knew it was the drugs, so I told my dad".

Chief Supt Dave Wheeler of Lincolnshire Police said: "It was a training exercise for the dog and education for the children, but what happened shouldn't have happened".

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