More than 40 per cent of suspects tested after arrest in Essex last month were found to have taken opiates like heroin or crack cocaine.Drug testing has now been extended to every police custody suite in Essex. The programme, set to cost £1.3m each year for a two-year period, has been rolled out thanks to partnership working between the county's police, councils, specialist drug treatment programmes, the Crown Prosecution Service and the courts. IIt aims to increase the number of people...
