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News - Const. Admir Minarolli has seen his fair share of drug-related crime. Minarolli has been an officer with the Ottawa police for the last nine years, with the majority of his time spent as a member of the force’s direct action response team and undercover. He’s also the community police officer for the Bayshore area. “About 90 per cent of the complaints when I was undercover were drug related,” he said. Minarolli was on hand at St. Mark Catholic High School on Jan. 20 as part of a workshop called Kids and Drugs: A Parent’s Guide to Prevention. The program was developed by the RCMP, but was taken over by the Ottawa police volunteer program a couple of years ago. It was hosted by the St. Mark parent council. Minarolli said high school is the time for parents to be
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vigilant. Changes in behavior, including aggression, dipping grades or anxiety, can be clues. He said parents should also look for missing items from the house, which could indicate a child is selling things to pay for a habit. New clothes and electronics out of whack with the income from a part-time job could signal drug dealing, Minarolli said. “I had one 13-year-old at a school I worked at who had a debt list,” Minarolli said, adding a debt list is a compilation of money owed to a dealer. According to a 2011 study on teen drug use, the percentage of teens who have experimented with marijuana jumps from one per cent in Grade 7 to 45 per cent in Grade 12. “A lot of people say pot is not a big deal,” Minarolli said. “But because it has no patents, there have been no studies on long-term effects. We already know it affects things like concentration and short-term memory.” He also challenged the notion that pot is organic. “I have seen some grow houses and you have no idea what you’re going to find,” he said. “Just the environment some illicit drugs are prepared in would give me pause. I wouldn’t touch them without gloves.” It’s not just illicit drugs that are a concern Minarolli said. Alcohol and prescription drugs are regular issues too. See DRUG on page 2
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