Police outrage as Spain rules possessing or taking drugs in a parked vehicle 'is not to be punished' - Olive Press News Spain

The Secretariat of State for Security of the Ministry of the Interior has sent an instruction to the security forces clarifying that they cannot punish the use or possession of drugs inside a private vehicle when parked and provided that the stupefacient is not intended for sale, since it is a “private space”.

The Secretariat of State for Security of the Ministry of the Interior has issued an instruction ordering the State Security Forces and Corps to leave without sanction...

The Ministry of the Interior has ordered the agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard not to report the use or possession of drugs, provided that they are not for trafficking, inside the parked private cars. The instruction, signed on Tuesday by the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez Ruiz, explains, citing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, that the vehicles are “spaces of privacy” and concludes that they cannot be applied t…

Police outrage as Spain rules possessing or taking drugs in a parked vehicle 'is not to be punished' - Olive Press News Spain

THE Spanish Secretary of State issued an instruction to the Policia Nacional and Guardia Civil, stating that the consumption of drugs in a parked vehicle

The Ministry of the Interior has issued a new instruction that exempts the National Police and the Civil Guard from punishing the consumption or possession of drugs inside private vehicles that are parked; the measure, officially communicated to the police, responds to the interpretation of the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, which recognize the private car as a space with a reasonable expectation of privacy, alt…

From now on getting high inside the car even if it is on the public road will be allowed, without the opinion of the DGT counting at all in...