Ine Van Wymersch (43) has been working as national drugs commissioner since April. Not to tell everyone how to do their work, but to create a laboratory in which it can be tested what does and does not hurt criminals. “My job is like acupuncture. We make it much more difficult for criminals by placing a few targeted needles, rather than by just calling for more armed people.” This is how Van Wymersch wants to approach it.
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INTERVIEW. The first national drugs commissioner: “Waging the ‘war on drugs’, but still giving them 50 euros every now and then because you are under pressure? That’s not possible”
