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We've got drivers round here smoking weed when they're working.
Not uncommon down here.
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| Author: | StuartW [ Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Merseyside plan for drugs test on new badge or renewal |
All Merseyside taxi drivers could face drugs tests after police crackdown https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... e-15983667 It follow a spate of arrests of taxi drivers for driving under the influence of drugs Merseyside's taxi drivers could all face mandatory new drug tests when they try and renew their licence. The drastic new measures are proposed in a report from police and crime commissioner Jane Kennedy's office and follow a spate of arrests of taxi drivers for driving under the influence of drugs. From the start of last year to November police had arrested more than 40 drivers for the offence - and then revealed shortly after that eight drivers were arrested in as many days. The new report, which will be discussed next week, said that Ms Kennedy met with council leaders and the metro mayor earlier this month to try and push the idea forward. The document says: "Following a huge increase in the number of taxi drivers being arrested for drug driving offences, last April the Commissioner took the issue of ‘drug testing’ for taxi drivers to the authority, advising that she would like to see a standardised approach to drug testing implemented across the region. "This would mean that all prospective taxi drivers and those seeking to renew their licenses would be subject to a mandatory drug test." A post on Merseyside Police's Safer Roads Unit twitter account last year revealed how a driver had tested positive and over the limit for three drugs while he had a paying customer in the vehicle. A report from the courts said the unnamed driver had cocaine, Benzoylecgonine (a compound tested for in cocaine urinalyses), and Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (a compound common in cannabis) in his system when he was stopped back in June. The amount of Benzoylecgonine in his blood was 16 times above the "specified limit", the tweet said. That driver lost his licence. Improving road safety is one of Ms Kennedy's priorities as PCC, with the aim of reducing the number of people killed or seriously injured on Merseyside's roads to less than 400. For 2017 that number stood at 557. |
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| Author: | StuartW [ Sun Mar 17, 2019 2:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Merseyside plan for drugs test on new badge grant or ren |
Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner wrote: "This would mean that all prospective taxi drivers and those seeking to renew their licenses would be subject to a mandatory drug test." So presumably it would be easy enough for a druggie driver to get 'clean' if they knew when the test would be conducted? |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Merseyside plan for drugs test on new badge grant or ren |
StuartW wrote: Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner wrote: "This would mean that all prospective taxi drivers and those seeking to renew their licenses would be subject to a mandatory drug test." So presumably it would be easy enough for a druggie driver to get 'clean' if they knew when the test would be conducted? Don't tell them the date just drop on them. We've got drivers round here smoking weed when they're working. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Merseyside plan for drugs test on new badge grant or ren |
Quote: It follow a spate of arrests of taxi drivers for driving under the influence of drugs Maybe the understatement of the year so far. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Merseyside plan for drugs test on new badge grant or ren |
Quote: So presumably it would be easy enough for a druggie driver to get 'clean' if they knew when the test would be conducted? Some drugs stay in your system for months, especially for those tested via their hair. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Merseyside plan for drugs test on new badge grant or ren |
Quote: We've got drivers round here smoking weed when they're working. Not uncommon down here.
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