Officer who wrote Met’s drug strategy smoked cannabis daily, panel told

Julian Bennett threatened to resign when the force asked him to take a drug test. Photograph: Radharc Images/Alamy

A senior Metropolitan police commander who wrote the force’s drug strategy allegedly smoked cannabis in front of his lodger every day, a gross misconduct hearing has been told.

Commander Julian Bennett later threatened to resign when he was asked to take a drug test on 21 July 2020, a disciplinary panel heard.