Closed call for evidence

ACMD internet facilitated drug markets review: call for evidence

Updated 20 December 2023

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ACMD Co-Chairs: Judith Aldridge and Lawrence Gibbons
ACMD Internet-Facilitated Drug Market: Daniel Komolafe

1st Floor (NE), Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

ACMD@homeoffice.gov.uk

November 2023

Call for evidence request Letter

To Whom it may concern:

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is collecting written evidence to better understand internet-facilitated drug markets (which we shorten here to IFDMs). The collected evidence will assist the ACMD in understanding the size, composition and participants in the market and the effectiveness of law enforcement interventions.

In August 2020, the Home Secretary commissioned the ACMD to provide advice and analysis of trends in drug trafficking on the darknet, and how enforcement might most effectively intervene in the movement of drugs facilitated by both the clear and darknet.

The ACMD has since established a working group focused on understanding internet-facilitated drug markets and has since specified its scope into the following:

  1. Providing a typology of internet-facilitated drug markets.

  2. Investigating the resilience of internet-facilitated drug markets in the face of law enforcement actions.

  3. Establishing the effectiveness of law enforcement strategies that aim to reduce the harms that internet-facilitated drug markets generate.

The evidence collected will play an important role for any advice that will eventually be published by the Working Group. We would be grateful for your written feedback in the attached questionnaire as part of the call for evidence by 26 January 2024.

We would welcome submissions of evidence from as broad a spectrum of participants as possible, however particularly local authorities, community and voluntary sector stakeholders, police services and legal professionals.

We would therefore be grateful if you could please circulate this call for evidence to other colleagues and relevant stakeholders. We will be using your feedback to assist in formulating advice to government.

Yours sincerely,

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