Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain, a ten-year strategy published in 1998, focused strongly on tackling drug-related crime. The police were expected to become a key player, combining the curbing of drugs supply with the potentially contradictory role of channelling drug-using offenders into treatment. The strategy provided little direction in terms of the street policing of problem drug users. Instead, this was shaped by wider developments in the organisation and delivery of policing. Prioritising 'volume crime', the removal of institutional targets for drug offences and the greater emphasis on reassurance-based street patrols have diluted the extent to which problem drug use is the focus of law enforcement agendas. Since 1998, a series of policy and legislative developments have informed the street policing of problem drug users.