Illiterate and Libellous

Someone's not paying enough of attention when reading newspaper articles at Police Headquarters. The following paragraph is from a Cyprus Mail story on rampant youth drunkenness in Limassol:

“If you hear some of things going there, it’s out of control. When parents stop giving their kids money they’ll end up exploiting themselves to get their [drug] dosage.”

Yes, it's a quote from someone who sees the potential worsening of a situation already out of control.

The article, however, prompted the police to get a bit overzealous. They claim that their own interpretation regarding whoring for drugs is unfounded. Maybe they can read the paragraph a bit slower or get someone in who is capable of reading and comprehending what this collection of words, embedded in a larger collection of words, actually means.

But why is the police trying to impress upon us that part of the problem which the newspaper does not claim to exist does, in actual fact, not exist?

And having completely misread the article can they really get away with referring to the Cyprus Mail's editor as having acted in a "frivolous" manner?