Senior officer behind Met drug strategy guilty of misconduct for refusing drugs test | Metropolitan police

4 comments

1. Perhaps a fundraiser to show we support officers breaching rules. Better yet legalise cannabis use.

2. let me just lol at these lying coppers lying.

   > Bennett was accused of smoking cannabis daily by a former lodger, Sheila Gomes. The panel, however, found her account implausible given that none of Bennett’s colleagues had noticed any change in his behaviour over this period.

   > WhatsApp messages that Gomes sent to a friend showed “vitriol” towards Bennett after their relationship deteriorated, as well as a “propensity to lie”, the panel found.

   > The three-person panel also accepted Bennett’s reasoning that he had refused the drugs test because he had taken legal CBD oil to treat his painful medical condition of Bells palsy, and that he feared this would give a positive result, rejecting another allegation that he had lied.

   lol

   these drug tests literally work on THC. Are we expected to believe that the senior drugs officer is so useless and thick and incompetent at his job that he doesn’t understand that CBD is a completely different chemical to THC and won’t give false results.

   So we’re supposed to believe:

   * lodger reported him for smoking weed daily
   * this is impossible because weed users are like zombies and you’d notice for sure
   * lodger is lying
   * he refused to take a drugs test because he’s an idiot and doesn’t understand drugs tests

   > Bennett wrote the force’s drugs strategy for 2017-21 as a commander for territorial policing. He presided over 74 police misconduct hearings – 69 as chair – between June 2010 and February 2012, which led to the dismissal of 56 officers, earning him the nickname “Sacker”. He has been suspended on full pay since July 2021.

3. They should really just legalise cannabis. Suspended on full pay for 2 years? What a waste of money.

4. Coppers being either dodgy or innefectual seems to be the norm now.