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Show : .. : fi" -v.. :-, r-v ' V ..; s'' - f Moab Police Chief Mclvin Dalton' demonstrates dem-onstrates methods of testing pills for cer- tain .types , of drugs or plants to see if they are they are marijuana. Dalton just returned from a school on drug identification identi-fication and drug law enforcement. Intensive FBI Course on Drugs Attended by fAoab Police Chief Police Chief Melvin S. Dalton returned this week from a two week course conducted by the Bureau of Narcotic and Danger-our Danger-our Drugs. The course, which hosted 125 lawmen, dealt with identification of drugs, arrest procedures, procedur-es, and investigation problems. prob-lems. The men attending the. course were primarily from Colorado, New Mexico Mex-ico and Arizona with six men attending from the state of Utah. Chief Dalton said that he had learned many facts about the drug user as well as how to identify many drugs which look very innocent, but which in reality are illegal. One of the highlights of tho course, Dalton said, was a test when the men wer-t given 30 samples of var -ious drugs and told to identify them. Most cii the samples, he said, looked look-ed alike but contained suchi drugs as cocaine, amphetamines, amphe-tamines, methampheta-mines, methampheta-mines, morphine, and heroin, her-oin, as well as LSD. Instructors for the Ari- zona course were men who had been in the drug abuse ab-use enforcement .field for 15 to 20 years and who were experts., in their fields. These men, Dalton said, were able to give actual ac-tual examples of ' cases they had worked on rather rath-er than textbook cases which might not be as meaningful. One example given the men on the profit in drug sales, showed how much markup there actually is in drug traffic. Instruc. tors Kt.atpH lhat. a nnMrph of heroin worth $165 in Tuarkey would be worth $225,280 by the time it was marketed on the streets of New York City. Other shocking exampl. es were given which included in-cluded a statement that a kilo, 2.2 pounds of marijuana, mari-juana, would be worth $5 in Mexico, $125 to $200 in our area; $550 in Chicago and $750 in New York. Use' -of such drugs as morphine, opium smoking (which in many cases has taken the place of pot smoking), speed, and cocaine co-caine is greatly increasing, increas-ing, said the Chief. He also mentioned that speed, one of the methamphetu. mines, can be more deadly than heroin. - In addition to iddenti-cation iddenti-cation of drugs, a discussion discus-sion of the relationship of law officers with doctors doc-tors and pharmacies wa3 also given. The' men at the school were told that addicts ad-dicts are recognizable by certain o their actions, including the. type of cigarettes cig-arettes they smoke and the type of soda pop they drink. Instruction was also al-so given in the latest methods me-thods of search and seizure. seiz-ure. Dalton said that attendance atten-dance at this school would lend some weight to statements state-ments made by him in court .concerning " narcotics. narcot-ics. He also said that he believed the school . was one of the best he had ev. er attended and stated that he hoped that he would be able, to apply much' of the knowledga gained by him there. |