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Cop consults on
drug awareness

Liam Lahey
Contributing Writer

SHANE Tuckey knows
more about drugs than
the average ‘parent or
adult.

Hence, the 20-3: ar veteran
of the North Shore RCMP"s
drug enforcement squad has
established his own consulting
business aimed at raising
awareness of drugs and related
issucs. But Tuckey’s target
audience isn’t secondary schoot
students or young children. It’s
parents, concerned adults, edu-
caters, and business persons.

“IF the average parent
comes home trom work and
discovers a marijuana joint,
they might not be aware of
what it is,” Tuckey offered.
“My parents didn’t have a clue
what a joint looked like.”

Tuckey’s aptly | named
Narcotics Awareness Research
Consultant Services (NARCS),
covers all aspects of drug cul-
ture from identifying a person
abusing a narcotic to drug user
lingo, paraphernalia, and the
costs of artificial joy on both
the abuser and their environ-
ment.

“The Lower Mainland is
referred to by pushers as ‘lotus
land” because of the abundance
of various narcotics on the
streets,” he continued. “As a
society, we're becoming, morc
desensitized to violent crime
and drug abuse.”

On the surface, Tuckey said
he decided to launch his own
consulting firm Jast year as a
means to support his family
ance he reures from = the
RCMP. On a more personal
note, the father of two admit-
red the real reason for his anti-
drug crusade.

“Everything | do; the rea-
son I do all of this is simple,”
he said gently. “To protect my
wife and my kids ... and to five
in a safe community.”

Juggling his time between
his family, his duties to the
RCMP, and as the Education
Program Director _ for
CAVEAT B.C. (Canadians

Against Violence Fxerywhere
Advocating it’s Termination),
Tuckey said NARCS was born
by default. After being invited
to speak at secondary
school before a parents’ adviso-
ry committee, he was
approached by other nearby
schools to give similar talks.

“From there it just snow-

” he said. “That's when
: to Mart my own con-
sulting firm aimed at parents
and business people.”

Tuckey said his talks are
equally beneficial to businesses
as thes are fo parents.

“Consider the — Exxon
Valdez a few vears ago, (the oil
tanker that ran aground off the
Alaskan coast in 1989) it was
discovered that the captain of
that ship was intoxicated,” he
said. “Imagine someone wha
works for you coming to work
just a little high on pot or coke
.. the amount of financial loss
incurred as a result of some-
thing like that is enormous.”

An expert on drugs and
drug abuse, Tuckey is recog-
nized as such by the Canadian
judicial system and has testified
in that capacity countless times.

hall

‘He also wains new Mountic

recruits on drug culture.

“There are people who
advocate the decriminalization
of certain drugs such as mari-
juana,” he added. “I don’t
think it would do society any
good to do so. The pulice
already have enough problems
with alcohol-related offences
and incidents, adding another
clement to that would be
awful.”

Tuckey said if more people
would get involved in the fight
against drugs, they would be
better prepared to make an
informed decision on what do
to when confronted with it.

“My hope is more parents’
advisory committees from
schools and more businesses
get involved, and that they will
recognize the need to be
aware,” he said.

Shane Tuckey can be con-
tacted at (604) 926-9053 or
via e-mail at stuckey@bc.sym-
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