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Police Forces - Recruitment and Workplace Testing
Important News Spring 2007 North East Region of Police Authorities become latest
TrichoTech clients
Medscreen , one of our sister companies, has been awarded
the contract to provide workplace drug testing services for 6 Police Forces
in the North East of England, with TrichoTech providing all the hair and
oral fluids test requirements. We are now providing over 40% of
all Police Forces in England and Wales with hair analysis services,
and a further 15% are close to choosing their supplier.
Please note: following this latest competitive tender, the procurement
process that was carried out has resulted "in a standing offer being
available to any other Police Authority listed in Hazell & Co Police
and Constabulary Almanac who potentially have a requirement for the service."
If your Authority is in the process of introducing a Substance Misuse
Testing programme (or is looking to update an existing one) you will be
able, if you wish, to procure under the terms of the North Yorkshire Police
Authority Contract without the requirement for an additional competitive
tendering process. The scope of the contract encompasses pre-employment,
random and 24 hour emergency "with cause" testing using urine,
oral fluids, hair and breath. It also includes the option for sample collection
to be carried out by the contractor or by the Authority.
TrichoTech has appointed a national account manager for UK Police, following
huge interest in the ultimate safeguard for Forces aiming to recruit a
drug-free workforce - hair analysis tests. These provide a long window
of detection - typically up to 3 months profile of drug use - and by doing
so are far more effective in preventing the evasion or fraud that a urine
test might allow.
Call us on 029 2054 6289 for more information.
Read more about how we perform the tests in the Guide
to Drug Testing article in June 2006 that appeared in Police
Professional - and don't just take our word for it, take
a look at how a journalist viewed Ineffective
Drug Testing "putting police forces at risk" which appeared
in the Police
Review in August 2006.
Hair doesn’t
lie is a Personnel Director’s view on hair tests and a TrichoTech
Director responds to the comment about environemental contamination in
the earlier article mentioned above (letters published in the Police Review).
Sign up to receive the TrichoTech Drugs Brief by email, just send
your details to policedrugsbrief@tricho-tech.co.uk
- We provide hair tests for major Forces recruitment campaigns.
- 32 Forces participated in our drug testing seminars this year.
- Supplier of hair tests to 15 Forces forensic departments.
- We are UKAS accredited to test for over 50 drugs and metabolites in hair, the widest variety in the industry.
- Approved and audited by LinkUp (the railway employers' quality standard).
- Recent Government contracts extended.
- Home Office approved chain of custody kits.