Monday, March 5, 2012

New rules will speed up warrants for drug dealers

Chicago police will get warrants and make arrests faster incases against accused small-time drug dealers under new procedures tobegin next week, authorities said Friday.

"There's going to be an aggressive pursuit of any warrants,"said Howard Patinkin, Chicago police deputy chief of patrol.

Robert Portman, chief executive officer for State's AttorneyCecil Partee, also said that warrants will be issued within a "coupleof days" of when the police take the cases to the state's attorney'soffice.

Currently, it may take between a "few days" and "outside of amonth" to get a warrant to the police after an indictment of analleged drug peddler is issued, Portman …

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