to be pissed off that no one seems to be talking about catching the drink spikers

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My understanding is that spiking someone's drink,which is effectively poisoning them, is punishable by up to 10 years in jail. That is a very serious offence. You would get less time for rape under the unlikely event that you were actually charged and convicted.

But what is being done to catch the poisoners? If a club/bar/pub has cctv are the police bothering to go through it? Is there any push to put more cctv in those places to catch these men? What about making everyone give their id on entrance and then recording it in case anyone is spiked? I may be wrong but is there any move to actually try to make it easier to catch these men? Grrr,,,

How do you know police aren't taking any reports seriously and looking through cctv where possible?

I imagine in a busy club it would be very hard to see on cctv who was spiking people. It would take cctv experts many many hours to go through any footage. They would have to be certain of the time and place of the spiking. I don't think it's very easy at all and even in murder cases it isn't always reliable as evidence.

Maybe the police are charging people and I have missed the news stories. But of the many news reports I have seen and read I haven't seen one that talks about that.

It might be hard in a busy club but this is a very serious offence. And if it could be made easier by some change (in CCTV for example) then I haven't heard any reports of what changes are being suggested to catch these men.

They've already arrested a couple of young men in connection with the injection incidents in Nottingham that brought this back up the agenda.

I think people are talking about this a lot and the police seems to at least be taking some action.