Andrew Fisher 23/3/17  Cowra Guardian
NSW Police Commissioner Scipione

“I remember when I was a kid it was cool to smoke, no one wore seat belts and everyone thought it was okay to have a drink and drive, but we had to educate people about the dangers of those things.”

“Supply and demand is supreme in this business.

“(Ice) can destroy families, you can tear the fabric of family so that it is almost not recoverable.

“You can destroy generations of harmony in a family in the blink of an eye. It’s a terrible, insidious drug,” he said.

He went on to point out ice can turn normal healthy people into a person with serious mental health issues.

“It can take normal healthy people and turn them into psychotic, paranoid, crazy people. Police officers get injured trying to control superhuman strength, it takes its toll on everyone,” he said.

Bringing down the dealers is always only going to be part of the solution, not the entire solution

“It might not be tomorrow, might not be in a year, but it will get you and when it does it could destroy you,” he said.

“How much do you care about your kids? Do you care enough to confront them? I think that’s the discussion you need to have around that table,” he said. You owe it to your kids, have that discussion now.

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