Fentanyl – a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than morphine – was seized in 90 per cent of the cases, the report said.

London police officers have engaged the same five people 170 times in the first four months of the force’s crackdown on public drug use, according to a new report.

Chief Thai Truong unveiled his strategy to combat open-air drug use in neighbourhoods stretching from downtown to Old East Village in April, saying business owners and residents in those areas cited rampant drug use as the main factor behind declining public safety in the city.

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