Editing Supervised injection site (section)

=== Crime ===

The Sydney MSIC was judged by its evaluators to have caused no increase in crime<ref name="druginfo.nsw.gov.au">2003 MSIC Evaluation Committee {{cite web |url= http://www.druginfo.nsw.gov.au/__data/page/1229/NDARC_final_evaluation_report4.pdf#Final%20Report%20of%20the%20MSIC%20Evaluation |title= Final Report of the Evaluation of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre |access-date= 2010-01-09 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091029190140/http://www.druginfo.nsw.gov.au/__data/page/1229/NDARC_final_evaluation_report4.pdf#Final%20Report%20of%20the%20MSIC%20Evaluation |archive-date= 2009-10-29 }} 2003 p. xvi</ref> and not to have caused a ‘honey-pot effect’ of drawing users and drug dealers to the Kings Cross area.<ref>2003 MSIC Evaluation Committee {{cite web |url= http://www.druginfo.nsw.gov.au/__data/page/1229/NDARC_final_evaluation_report4.pdf#Final%20Report%20of%20the%20MSIC%20Evaluation |title= Final Report of the Evaluation of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre |access-date= 2010-01-09 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091029190140/http://www.druginfo.nsw.gov.au/__data/page/1229/NDARC_final_evaluation_report4.pdf#Final%20Report%20of%20the%20MSIC%20Evaluation |archive-date= 2009-10-29 }} 2003 p. 204</ref>

Observations before and after the opening of Insite indicated no increases in drug dealing or petty crime in the area. There was no evidence that the facility influenced drug use in the community, but concerns that Insite ‘sends the wrong message’ to non-users could not be addressed from existing data.<ref name="ReferenceC">see Executive Summary of {{cite web |url= http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/pubs/_sites-lieux/insite/index-eng.php#insite |title=Final Report of the Vancouver Insite Expert Advisory Committee |access-date=2010-04-19|date=2008-04-03 }}</ref> The European experience has been mixed.<ref>see Sections A7 to A9 of Appendix B {{cite web |url= http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/pubs/_sites-lieux/insite/index-eng.php#insite |title=Final Report of the Vancouver Insite Expert Advisory Committee |access-date=2010-04-19|date=2008-04-03 }}</ref>

==== Financial impropriety by SCS service providers ====
An audit of Lethbridge ARCHES SCS by accounting firm Deloitte, ordered by the Alberta provincial government, found the SCS had $1.6 million in unaccounted funds between 2017 and 2018; additionally they found that led{{clarify|date=October 2024}} $342,943 of grant funds had been expended on senior executive compensation despite the grant agreement allowing only $80,000. Beyond this, an additional $13,000 was spent on parties, staff retreats, entertainment and gift cards,<ref name=":2" /> and numerous other inappropriate expenditures.<ref name=":2" />

The Lethbridge Police Service and Alberta Justice Specialized Prosecutions Branch later contradicted these findings, stating that all funds were present and accounted for in accounts belonging to the agency. When asked why these funds had previously been reported as missing, LPS Acting Inspector Pete Christos stated that the initial auditors did not have the means to investigate the agency's finances, and that all spending had been accounted for during the criminal probe.

Premier [[Jason Kenney]] did not dispute the results of the investigation, but declined to reinstate funding, claiming that the site's management had lost the confidence of his government.<ref name=":LPSfunds" />