Officer who wrote Met’s drug strategy had flat like ‘Amsterdam coffee shop’, tribunal hears

Commander Julian Bennett joined the Met in 1976 and wrote the force’s drug strategy for 2017-21. Photograph: Zuma/Alamy

A senior Metropolitan police commander who wrote the force’s drug strategy regularly smoked cannabis before going to work, a tribunal has heard.

A nurse who lived with Julian Bennett towards the end of 2019 described the flat as “like an Amsterdam coffee shop”.