kkattastic
Bluelighter
I take what you say about the family checks Kat -it would be a conflict of professional interests for the police to employ anyone, even in a civilian role, if they were related to someone with serious criminal convictions (im sure your mom would have still been eligible for employment if this was prior to your prison sentence when simple drug posession was your only recorded offence.) Otherwise, I seriously doubt that submission to random drug screens would be a pre- condition for employment in any public role - as I stated, this wold be an occupational health matter first and foremost.
As I have already stated, the only time I have come across random drug tests as a condition of contract have been concerned with light and heavy private industrial type jobs, in all cases I remember the parent companies concernered have been (unsurprisingly) American based multinationals
some people really need to read their contracts carefully cos they do put stuff in there that is very much 'implied'
not saying you should....but many people just sign their contract without thinking of the small print
always read every word of your contract and highlight and ask about any part you don't understand or that concerns you for whatever reason
I think most employers understand that many of their employees might smoke a spliff on a weekend and then panic about random drug tests in their piss test