Mr. António Manuel Leitão da Silva:

It is the one million dollar question because it is quite challenging for the police. Especially, as I mentioned, the legislation allows users to take an amount for ten days and the strategy we have right now is the drug dealers supply small amounts to drug users and have them re-selling these small amounts. It is a challenge for the police and it is definitely a grey area. The challenge is for police investigations and especially when we realise drug dealers are using drug users for drug trafficking purposes because of the ten-day amount users can carry themselves. It is a challenge for the police investigation squad. We are not lacking police operational status because of the law. That is one of the things I would like to emphasise. We are still doing the policing job properly. Actually, the police seized quite a good amount of drugs two days ago here in Porto. It is much easier now to get information than it was in the past because police officers are not those who will incarcerate drug users. I understand the Senator's question because of this grey area but at the end of the day we do not have that problem here. The problem we are facing now is the use of drug users to traffic small amounts of drugs and that is something the police are dismantling - the strategies of the big drug dealers.