Police: Steroid Drugs

(asked on 2nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been disciplined for (a) possessing and (b) failing a drugs test for anabolic steroids by police force in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.


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Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 10th February 2022

Information on the number of police officers disciplined for being in possession of or failing a drugs test for anabolic steroids is not collected centrally by the Home Office.

The Home Office collects and publishes high level information annually on the number and outcome of misconduct proceedings involving police officers. The latest data, which covers cases in the year ending March 2020, are available here: Police workforce, England and Wales: 30 September 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Following the introduction of new legislation in February 2020 to overhaul the police discipline system, the Home Office has expanded its data collection to collect more granular information on police misconduct including allegation type. However, data specifically relating to the possession or use of anabolic steroids are not included in this improved data collection. The Home Office is working with forces to improve data to reach a publishable standard in the near future.

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