Drug Testing - 1585/22

Date Responded 18 November 2022

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

I would like to request the following information for Northumbria Police, since 2018:

1. The number of Police Officers and Police Staff who have failed drug tests.

2. The number of Police Officers and Police Staff who have tested positive for androgenic-anabolic steroids (AAS) including designer steroids, prohormones and designer prohormones. Such as, but not limited to, the ones listed below:

[Name of steroid (Brand names)]
• Boldenone undecylenate (Equipoise)
• Fluoxymesterone (Halotestin)
• Mesterolone (Proviron)
• Methandienone (Dianabol)
• Methenolone enanthate (Primobolan)
• Methyltestosterone (Virilon)
• Mibolerone (Cheque)
• Nandrolone decanoate (Deca Durabolin)
• Nandrolone phenpropionate (Durabolin)
• Oxandrolone (Anavar, Oxandrin)
• Oxymetholone (Anadrol)
• Stanozolol (Winstrol)
• Testosterone cypionate (Depotest)
• Testosterone enanthate (Andro-Estro)
• Testosterone propionate (Testex)
• Trenbolone acetate (Finajet)

3. The number of Police Officers and Police Staff who have been discharged from duty due to a failed drug test.

4. The number of Police Officers and Police Staff who have been discharged from duty due to testing positive for AAS.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Professional Standards Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Professional Standards Department records have been checked from 1 January 2018 till 8 November 2022 for Police officers and Police staff that have failed a drug tests. The result of those checks are as follows:

1. 1 x police staff.

2. Nil.

3. 1 x police staff.

4. Nil.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.