Police leave drugs in bag of girl, 10
A drugs squad officer left a packet of speed in a 10-year-old schoolgirl's bag after a drugs awareness lesson.
The police officer put three packets of the drug in her bag but after the demonstration took back only two, reports the Mirror.
Kia Butterfield did not find the amphetamine until she got back to her home in Wainfleet, near Skegness.
Her mum Amanda, 33, said: "I still can't get my head around this - an officer gave my daughter a bag of hard drugs. If your kids aren't safe from drugs on a day out with police, when are they safe?
"My three-year-old was playing at the table where those drugs were. She could have mistaken it for a bag of sherbet and swallowed it. That could have been fatal."
The officer put the drugs in Kia's bag to demonstrate how sniffer dogs worked during a seminar for primary schoolchildren at a Butlins camp.
The youngster said: "I thought he had taken out all the drugs when he handed my bag back. I got home and put it on the kitchen table near where my sister was playing.
"An hour later I went to get a pencil and found this plastic bag with powder in. I knew it was the drugs, so I told my dad."
Chief Supt Dave Wheeler of Lincolnshire Police said: "It was a training exercise for the dog and education for the children, but what happened shouldn't have happened."
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A drugs squad officer left a packet of speed in a 10-year-old schoolgirl's bag after a drugs awareness lesson.
The police officer put three packets of the drug in her bag but after the demonstration took back only two, reports the Mirror.
Kia Butterfield did not find the amphetamine until she got back to her home in Wainfleet, near Skegness.
Her mum Amanda, 33, said: "I still can't get my head around this - an officer gave my daughter a bag of hard drugs. If your kids aren't safe from drugs on a day out with police, when are they safe?
"My three-year-old was playing at the table where those drugs were. She could have mistaken it for a bag of sherbet and swallowed it. That could have been fatal."
The officer put the drugs in Kia's bag to demonstrate how sniffer dogs worked during a seminar for primary schoolchildren at a Butlins camp.
The youngster said: "I thought he had taken out all the drugs when he handed my bag back. I got home and put it on the kitchen table near where my sister was playing.
"An hour later I went to get a pencil and found this plastic bag with powder in. I knew it was the drugs, so I told my dad."
Chief Supt Dave Wheeler of Lincolnshire Police said: "It was a training exercise for the dog and education for the children, but what happened shouldn't have happened."
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