A police force at the centre of a Home Office anti-drugs pilot is disproportionately subjecting Black people to drug testing, openDemocracy can reveal.
South Yorkshire Police was one of five forces handpicked by the Home Office for additional funding to ramp up drug testing on arrest. Since 2019, it has used the tool a total of 4,819 times, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.
But Black adults accounted for one in ten of those tested, despite representing only one in 20 arrests (4%) by the force, according to Home Office data.
