FOI 226578
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 226578
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 1st February 2023. Please find below the response to your request:
1) Please tell me, with reference to the 2021/22 financial year, the number of
a) Substance misuse tests undertaken at random by your force's officers.
b) Substance misuse tests administered with cause by your force's officers.
c) Substance misuse tests given on a pre-employment basis.
d) The number of positive results produced by all of the tests undertaken in the period
2) Please break down 1d (the number of positive tests) by
a) The drug detected (e.g., cannabis, cocaine)
b) The disciplinary measures resulting (e.g., final warning, dismissed, job offer withdrawn)
c) Whether the substance misuse test was given at random, with cause or on a pre-employment basis.
Reply
West Mercia Police holds some of the information you have requested
- Please tell me, with reference to the 2021/22 financial year, the number of
a) Substance misuse tests undertaken at random by your force's officers.
4
b) Substance misuse tests administered with cause by your force's officers.
1
c) Substance misuse tests given on a pre-employment basis.
Pre-employment tests are carried out however, the information you require is not held as there is not a management system to retrieve these figures.
d) The number of positive results produced by all of the tests undertaken in the period –
6 were sent to the lab for further analysis.
- Please break down 1d (the number of positive tests) by
a) The drug detected (e.g., cannabis, cocaine)
Morphine was confirmed by the lab however this was concurrent with what was declared by the applicants.
b) The disciplinary measures resulting (e.g., final warning, dismissed, job offer withdrawn)
No action taken as was declared by the applicants.
c) Whether the substance misuse test was given at random, with cause or on a pre-employment basis.
Pre-employment