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Senior officer behind Met drug strategy sacked over refusal to take drug test (www.theguardian.com)

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Disciplinary panel had found Julian Bennett guilty of gross misconduct for refusing test when accused of smoking cannabis

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The public will justifiably be outraged that any police officer, but particularly one of such a senior rank, refused a lawful order to take a drug test.

No, I'm outraged that as a rule, police officers don't refuse to take part in the absurd war on drugs, which drug tests are part of.