Officer who wrote Met’s drug strategy smoked cannabis daily, panel told – Commander Julian Bennett refused to take a drug test in 2020 after his lodger contacted police alleging drug use

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  1. lodger is a bitch tbh

    also people will be surprised how many police take drugs. Stepdad was a copper and he habitually smoked and judging by the jaws of some of his mates they also did harder stuff

  4. Said it before…police are a law unto themselves…biggest hypocritical organisation to exist,absolute pisstaking misogynistic, racist wankers

  5. People will complain about the hypocrisy but it’s probably better to have a hypocrite in this position than a puritan zealot who is a true believer in the war on ~~undesirables~~ drugs.

  10. Prison officer neighbor a massive cannabis smoker, find it hilarious as he probably had guys in the prison he works at for drugs charges..

  11. See, With a clear market for it both nationally and internationally, it would make more sense to drop the stigmas and legalise the planting, propagation and harvest of recreation marijuana / cannabis.

    Legalise nature.
    Criminalise synthetic shit.

  12. I know a serving police officer who routinely broke COVID lockdown rules, has previously used class A drugs and habitually smokes weed. How they can justify arresting others for offences they themselves have committed is baffling. Clearly one rule for me and another for thee.

  13. we already know most toilets in parliament test positive for drugs as well

    if the law makers are taking drugs, and the law enforcers are taking drugs, why don’t we fucking change the law?

  14. Instead of calling the police hypocrites we should be questioning more generally why some drugs are still illegal. Clearly if he was able to get to the position that he was able to write a drug strategy for an organisation as large as the met he was not rendered incompetent by smoking cannabis, at least not any more than he would have been by legal intoxicants like alcohol for example. We should be looking at legalising and taxing, rehabilitation for those who are addicted instead of criminalising them, and freeing up time for over stretched and underfunded forces so they can go and investigate and stop actual crimes. Not exonerating anyone in the met or the wider policing establishment, I am not and will never be a fan of the police, but to place the onus of blame on one officer as opposed to a backwards and outdated set of laws is madness.

  15. > Bennett, who has been suspended on full pay for two years, is also accused of taking magic mushrooms and LSD. He was nicknamed “Sacker” for dismissing dozens of officers – including two for drug misuse – while presiding over disciplinary hearings during his 45-year career. He wrote the Met drug strategy for 2017 to 2021.

    So when they thought he was clean and doing his job as appropriate, he got the nickname “sacker” for dismissing people using drugs?

    So the culture in the police hasn’t changed on iota.

  17. Legalise it, tax it to bring the price comparable to black market prices and use all the money for the NHS only.

    Prohibition never works.

  18. Police are such cretins, don’t even have the braincells to come up with a half decent nickname, they just called him sacker because he.. er.. sacked people. Morons

  20. Laws are arbitrary agreements, made by people who are not you and applied to people who are not them.

  21. There’s a big difference between smoking weed and drug problems involving class A’s, organised crime, large scale dealing. We all know this. Let’s not be disingenuous.

  22. Honestly not even mad. People dont become police to enforce drug laws, but they have to to keep their jobs. Id rather be stopped by a copper wholl be sympathetic and give me a verbal warning, than one thatll have me in court

  25. I know someone whose sister in law’s cousin’s neighbour’s ex boyfriend’s uncle’s wife whose father in law sat on the bus once next to the brother of a copper who use to drink and drive in 1981.

  27. Don’t they know that the Police can do as they damn well please?

    And for them drugs (and many other things) are free.

  29. I did a Heroin detox, bareback-no meds, whilst rejoining the navy to escape my predicament. 3 days of rattling like a barn door in a storm & they didn’t have a scooby. Hours spent on a parade ground doing drill with a spine that feels like snapping into a thousand fragments is character building to say the least. Hardest thing I ever did, but it worked; I’d recommend it to anyone serious enough to quit & somehow able to pass the medical piss test (tf I managed to, though God knows how). If the government were to implement a similar program (legally above board this time), it would offer a very good way for others in the same boat to escape the good life & find a rewarding job to help give them a better way of focusing their energies (Just keep them away from Afghanistan). Anyone able to fight a rattle & is a pretty tough cookie, ideal for military life. ‘what shall we do with a gouching sailor’ has a nice ring to it, no?

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