FOI 140-2025 / Jan 2025 / Drug tests
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 140-2025
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 31st January 2025 as follows:
For each calendar year, 2022; 2023; 2024:
1) How many full-time serving police officers and members of staff were subject to random drug testing?
2) How many positive results were returned from random drug tests?
3) How many positive results of each drug type (Class A, B, C) were returned by random drugs tests? (Please specify drug if information available)
4) How many full-time serving police officers or members of staff were caught
under the influence or possession of drugs (outside of random drug testing)?
5) How many full-time serving police officers or members of staff were caught under the influence of alcohol while on-duty or before their shift?
6) How many full-time serving police officers had their employment terminated following a positive drug test or found to be under the influence of alcohol?
Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in providing the response to your request and for any inconvenience that this may have caused you. Please find the Warwickshire police response set out below.
Q1 response:
2022 – 5
2023 – 12
2024 – 13
Q2 response:
2022 – 0
2023 – 0
2024 – 0
Q3 response: Not applicable
Q4 response: None, our response is therefore ‘no information held’.
Q5 response: Not applicable
Q6 response: Not applicable
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB