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UK: Police officers may face random drugs tests
Ananova
Thursday 04 Sep 2003 The Government is to reconsider introducing random drug tests for police officers in England and Wales. Ministers had rejected the idea last year but Home Office minister Hazel Blears has instructed the Police Advisory Board to examine the issue again following calls from the Superintendents Association. She told BBC Radio Four's The World Tonight programme: "The issue will be considered by the Police Advisory Board at the end of October. "We will be very interested to see what comes out of the board and we will look at the issue again then." Ms Blears last month admitted that she experimented once with cannabis in her youth. President of the Police Superintendent's Association Kevin Morris will tell the organisation's annual conference in Newport, south Wales, next week testing is a matter of ethics for police who have to enforce the drugs laws. "We owe it to the public to show it quite clearly and categorically that police are not taking illicit drugs," he told The World Tonight. "I think we have to be realistic that with over 130,000 police officers some will be tempted." However, the organisation which represents frontline police officers is opposed to the idea.
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