Police chief wants workplace drug tests

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Employers Could Test Workers For Drugs, Suggests Met Police Chief The head of the Metropolitan Police has suggested there could be more drugs tests for employees at work, as part of attempts to discourage recreational users. "How many drug addicts have you got working for you?" Bernard Hogan-Howe asked an audience at the think-tank policy exchange on Tuesday. Former shadow home secretary David Davis is leading calls to change the law that bans "insulting" language. A lot of which will be flying around parliament today as the Tory MPs fight each other for control of their backbench 1922 committee. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and attorney general Dominic Grieve will face MPs over allegations they intend to downgrade the Freedom of Information Act. One former secretary of state who has similar views is Jack Straw, who will be before the Leveson Inquiry today. Also: Barack Obama makes fun of David Beckham's underwear. While you're all looking at pictures of that, we're off to conduct surreptitious drugs tests on our colleagues. Scrap Law Banning Ins*lt**g L*ng**ge, Says Tory MP Theresa May 'On Precipice' Of Destroying Police Leveson Summons Former Hunt Adviser And Tells MPs To Back Off Phone Hacking Charges No More Than A 'Witch Hunt' And 'An Expensive Sideshow' Ministers Face Grilling Over Attempts To Curb FOI Laws BLOG POSTS Bob Morgan: Party Politics With a Power of Arrest People are going to be asked to elect Police Commissioners in England and Wales for the first time in November this year. This is a remarkable change in how the Police are run in this country and we are told it is to make the Police more accountable to the people they serve. Hugh Salmon: Tomorrow Never Comes (Unless You're Green) By emphasising their established long-term commitment to a better world for future generations and widening their sphere of interest, the Greens may have a brighter future than they think. Adrian Ramsay: Greens Advance in Local Elections This year voter turnout was disappointingly low. Some blamed it on the rain but we need to look deeper for explanations about why so many people have lost faith in politics. Dr Alan Mendoza: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater? The Fightback for 'Inclusive Capitalism' Starts Here Over the past four years, our system of capitalism has come in for merciless berating from politicians, opinion formers and most tellingly, the general public. Whether it is bankers' bonuses, business practices, or concerns about rising levels of inequality, it has been 'open season' on the 'greedy capitalists' looking to dominate the 99% in the interests of the 1%. Alice Barnard: Apprenticeships: The Real Story Traditionally, apprenticeships were the main route into business. Some of the country's best-known entrepreneurs mastered their skills this way: Michel Roux, restaurateur and Masterchef judge, British fashion designer Karen Millen, and hair-product entrepreneur John Frieda all learned their crafts via apprenticeship schemes.

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