BID TO DOB IN DEALERS

TOUGHER sentences for drug dealers would not work unless communities were
prepared to "dob in" offenders, the mayor of a western NSW town said yesterday.

Acting Prime Minister John Anderson had called for tougher sentences,
including life for drug dealers, saying Aboriginal children were being
forced into prostitution to support their addiction.

But the mayor of Bourke, Wayne O'Malley said the real problem was
convicting drug dealers.

"Until communities are prepared to take a stand and dob the dealer in it's
going to be very difficult for the courts to deal with them," Mr O'Malley said.