00:00A panel found Metropolitan Police Commander Julian Bennett had breached professional standards when he refused to provide a urine sample after being called in to do so in the presence of an assistant commissioner, instead offering to resign on the spot and asking for a meeting with then-commissioner Dame Cressida Dick.
00:26Following the decision to revoke the dismissal, the Met considered a legal challenge by way of a judicial review that decided that Mr Bennett should face a fresh misconduct hearing.
00:42Last September, the allegation proven against Mr Bennett was again found at the level of gross misconduct at the latest hearing.
00:53The officer who served in the force from 1976 had remained suspended throughout the process and will now be added to the College of Leasing's barred list.
01:07Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said he was enormously concerned that almost five years since this incident happened, the force have only now been able to dismiss Commander Bennett.
01:21I might add that he was on full pay during this time.
01:25Mr Bennett actually wrote the Met's drugs strategy for 2017 to 2021 as a commander for territorial policing.
01:33The document called dealing with the impact of drugs on communities, set up plans to raise awareness of the impacts of drug misuse.
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01:46Yes, he championed this.
01:47He chaired misconduct panels.
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01:49Yes, John Anderson the Minister.
01:50He chaired misconduct panels.
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01:52He chaired misconduct panels.
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01:54Mr Anderson the Minister.
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