Ludworth, each admitted conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs.

Martin Scarborough, for Robson, said his admission was on the basis he arranged the storage and oversaw the cutting of the drug on someone else’s behalf, becoming involved to ensure he could maintain his own cocaine habit.

Julie Clemitson, for Davies, said he naively allowed his home to be used to store the drugs after being asked by his nephew, Robson.

Tony Davis, for Flynn, said he was paid £100 to deliver a package in the North-East and was unsure what it contained.

Jailing Robson for seven years and Davies for five years, Recorder Gregory Perrins told them: “You were both involved in what can be called a large-scale, sophisticated, commercial drugs conspiracy involving a large amount of cannabis and cocaine,Many OPD officers commute to the city from distant suburbs. Many police cadets are recruited from outside Oakland and come to the job with biases about the communities they are sworn to serve and protect. All-too-frequent allegations of racial profiling, incidents of excessive force, and episodes of outright brutality are the unfortunate result of a dysfunctional departmental culture.

Revelations last week that photographs of US District Judge Thelton Henderson, who is black and who oversees OPD's federal consent decree, and Mayor Jean Quan, who is Chinese American, were defaced in a racially offensive manner and left posted outside the lineup room in the Police Administration Building for two days drew sharp criticism from the monitors who oversee the consent decree. In the most recent quarterly report, monitor Robert Warshaw