# The Police (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2012

S.I. 2012/680 · made 2 March 2012

These Regulations amend the Police Regulations 2003 in a number of respects with regard to testing for the consumption of controlled drugs or alcohol. The amendments allow for the testing of any member of a police force as part of a routine random testing regime, rather than the testing of members in particular categories or particular circumstances. They allow a sample of hair, rather than oral fluid or urine, to be taken for the purposes of testing a candidate for appointment to a police force. They also replace references to saliva in the Police Regulations 2003 with references to oral fluid, while defining oral fluid so as to include saliva. This last is a technical amendment to reflect the fact that the substance recovered by oral testing is a fluid containing, but not consisting entirely of, saliva.

Made under: Police Act 1996

## Introductory text

Police, England And Wales
Made 2nd March 2012
Laid before Parliament 7th March 2012
Coming into force 1st April 2012
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of the Police Act 1996, makes the following Regulations.
In accordance with section 63(3) of that Act, the Secretary of State has supplied a draft of these Regulations to the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and taken into consideration their representations.

## 1 Citation and commencement

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2012.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2012.

## 2 Amendment to the Police Regulations 2003

(1) The Police Regulations 2003 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3(1) (interpretation) after the entry for “member of a police force” insert ““oral fluid” includes saliva;”.
(3) In regulation 10(1)(i) (qualifications for appointment to a police force) for “saliva” substitute “hair or oral fluid”.
(4) In regulation 19(4)(b) (samples) for “saliva” substitute “oral fluid”.
(5) In regulation 19A(1) (testing for substance misuse)—
(a) for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—
“(d) is selected in accordance with a regime of routine random testing;”;
(b) for “saliva” substitute “oral fluid”.

## Signature

Nick Herbert
Minister of State
Home Office
2nd March 2012

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Police Regulations 2003 in a number of respects with regard to testing for the consumption of controlled drugs or alcohol. The amendments allow for the testing of any member of a police force as part of a routine random testing regime, rather than the testing of members in particular categories or particular circumstances. They allow a sample of hair, rather than oral fluid or urine, to be taken for the purposes of testing a candidate for appointment to a police force. They also replace references to saliva in the Police Regulations 2003 with references to oral fluid, while defining oral fluid so as to include saliva. This last is a technical amendment to reflect the fact that the substance recovered by oral testing is a fluid containing, but not consisting entirely of, saliva.

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