A city police officer says arresting people for possession of cannabis goes against his morals
Police office is putting his job at risk in order to challenge the country’s ‘totalitarian and immoral’ drug laws.
Lars Kragh Andersen told news website 180grader.dk that he has refused to participate in the police’s drug raids because arresting people for possession of cannabis weighs too heavily on his conscience.
‘Is it right to force these values onto other people, to raid homes and punish citizens over some dried leaves and plants?’ he asked on the website. ‘And there wouldn’t be much fuss about my saying that if I wasn’t a police officer. But I am’.
Andersen has criticised police administrators and fellow officers for following the law to the letter, regardless of the logic or consequences associated with it. He admitted he was putting his job at risk by making the comments, but said he was standing by them.
