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Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting the following information about drug use in the police.
Q1. How many drug tests have you conducted on police staff in each of the last 5 years? Please break this down to year by year where possible.
Q2. How many police staff have tested positive for illegal drug use in each of the last 5 years? Please break this down year by year where possible.
Q3. Please also include which substance was positively detected in each drug test, and break this down year by year.
Q4. Please explain where applicable what disciplinary action was taken relating to each positive drug test.
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Q1 & Q2. Please see the table below which details the number of drug tests carried out by North Yorkshire Police on civilian staff members from 01 April 2021 to 31 March 2024, broken down by year, count of tests and results.
|
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
Staff Tests Conducted |
41 |
49 |
31 |
Positive Results |
0 |
2 |
0 |
Q3. Both positive drug tests were positive for cannabis.
Q4. Both resigned prior to disciplinary measures commencing.
I note that we do not hold data prior to 01 April 2021.
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.