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Alternative sentencing sought for drug crimes

Police are continuing to stop drugs from being imported to the Isle of Man. 

That's the Home Affairs Minister Juan Watterson who says the department is seeking deterrent prison sentences for serious drug crime.

It's also looking at alternative methods of dealing with offenders at the lower end of the scale.

15 arrests have been made at the Island's ports last year for drug-related matters with substantial amounts of cash also being recovered:
 

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