A police officer with several years' experience as an investigator in the illicit drugs field may give opinion evidence about street-level drug use, mixing practices, and dealing patterns, even where their particular expertise is in a different sub-area such as clandestine laboratory manufacture. The existence of a particular area of expertise does not deny the more general knowledge and expertise derived from years of investigative experience in the field.
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