{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2834",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the 2003 Regulations",
  "text": "After regulation 19 of the 2003 Regulations the following regulation is inserted—\n“Testing for substance misuse\n19A. (1) The chief officer of a police force may require any member of the force who—\n(a) gives the chief officer reasonable cause to suspect that he has used a controlled drug;\n(b) is on a period of probation under regulation 12;\n(c) has been identified by the chief officer as being vulnerable because of a specific responsibility for dealing with drugs; or\n(d) is of a description specified in a determination of the Secretary of State;\nto give a sample of saliva or urine to be tested for evidence of controlled drugs in accordance with procedures determined by the Secretary of State.\n(2) The chief officer of a police force may require a member of the force who falls within paragraph (1)(d) to give a sample of breath to be tested for evidence of alcohol in accordance with procedures determined by the Secretary of State.\n(3) A member of a police force who—\n(a) on giving a sample under paragraph (1) is found to have taken a controlled drug specified in a determination of the Secretary of State; or\n(b) falls within paragraph (1)(d) and who, on giving a sample under paragraph (2), is found to have more than 13 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath\nshall face such consequences as are specified in that determination.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2834/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:54.094389+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}