{"id":251,"date":"2005-12-04T22:42:48","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T22:42:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-04T22:42:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T22:42:48","slug":"from-1-december-police-have-been-allowed-to-test-for-drugs-on-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"From 1 December police have been allowed to test for drugs on arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scheme has been initially&nbsp;targeted in areas with the highest drug-linked crime rates such as Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. <br \/>The powers are likely to be expanded into other areas from 31 March 2006. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points of the powers:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>offenders will be tested for heroin, crack and cocaine on arrest for acquisitive crimes, such as robbery, burglary \n<li>offenders who refuse the test could face a penalty fine of up to \u00a32500 and\/or three months in prison \n<li>courts will be able to deny bail unless the offender agrees to a drug assessment \n<li>&nbsp;anyone who tests positive will be assessed by drugs workers and allocated a programme of support or treatment <\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scheme has been initially&nbsp;targeted in areas with the highest drug-linked crime rates such as Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. The powers are likely to be expanded into other areas from 31 March 2006. Key points of the powers: offenders will be tested for heroin, crack and cocaine on arrest for acquisitive crimes, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}