Drugs and offenders released during custodial sentence
Section 11: Drug testing
93.Section 11 amends section 64 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000, which makes provision for the Secretary of State to impose a drug testing requirement on offenders aged 18 or over released from prison on licence.
94.Subsection (2) of section 11 removes the condition that an offender must have committed a specified trigger offence in order to have a drug testing requirement imposed as part of a licence. It substitutes a two-limbed test such that a requirement can only be imposed if the Secretary of State is satisfied that:
The misuse of a specified Class A or B drug by the offender caused or contributed to a past offence or is likely to cause or contribute to further offending; and
The offender is dependent on, or has a propensity to misuse, a specified Class A or Class B drug.
95.Subsections (2) and (3) of section 11 expand the categories of drugs that an offender can be tested for from Class A to Class A and Class B drugs.