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The prime minister has promised the government will take a new approach to law and order on the back of the "success" of the antisocial behaviour legislation.

Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Brighton Tony Blair said there would be "a radical extension of compulsory drug testing for offenders, a doubling of investment in drug treatments and summary powers to deal with the drug dealers and violence with binge drinking".

By the end of the next Parliament all communities would have their own dedicated policing team and have a say on how local areas were policed, Blair said.