{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003/regulation-19A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003/regulation-19A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/527",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/19A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19A",
  "heading": "Testing for substance misuse",
  "text": "(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 10B or 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 selected in accordance with a regime of routine random testing;\nto give a sample of oral fluid 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—\n(a) gives the chief officer reasonable cause to suspect that the member is under the influence of alcohol while on duty; or\n(b) is selected in accordance with a regime of routine random testing,\nto 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) ... 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": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 19A inserted (7.11.2005) by The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2834), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19A(1)(b) inserted (22.2.2019) by The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1191), regs. 1, 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 19A(1)(d) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Police (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/680), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19A(1) substituted (1.4.2012) by The Police (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/680), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 19A(2) substituted (4.1.2017) by The Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1200), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19A(3)(b) omitted (4.1.2017) by virtue of The Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1200), regs. 1, 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/527/regulation/19A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:34.247026+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."
}