Met Police Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray said Julian Bennett's actions were 'deplorable' and that he 'showed complete disregard and disrespect for the standards we must all uphold'.
A Metropolitan Police commander has been sacked after refusing to provide a sample for a drugs test when he was accused of smoking cannabis. Julian Bennett, who joined the force in 1976, was cleared by a disciplinary panel of using the drug at home in late 2019. However, he was found to have committed gross misconduct by failing to provide a urine sample for a drugs test on 21 July 2020.
' He added that Mr Bennett most likely decided to involve the ex-commissioner 'to secure for himself high-level cover to deflect inevitable criticism and embarrassment that would come his way'. The chairman also said that 'if the goal of resignation was to avoid embarrassing' the Met this was 'unlikely to be achieved'. Outlining the panel's reasons for sacking Mr Bennett, Mr Khan said he had 'shown limited insight regarding the proven conduct'.
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