Police commander fired over drugs test could get his job back

A former Met Police commander who was fired for refusing to take a drugs test has won an appeal allowing his sacking to be reconsidered at a new tribunal. Julian Bennett, who wrote the Met Police’s drugs strategy, was found to have committed gross misconduct when he refused to provide a urine sample for a drugs test on 21 July 2020. Mr Bennett, who had been in the Metropolitan Police for 46 years, had been accused of taking cannabis, LSD…