Knowingly permitting drug supply or cannabis smoking on your premises is an offence under section 8 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and a licensing review can suspend or revoke your licence.
The drugs policy, dated staff training and incident and seizure register that show you were managing it, for pubs, bars, clubs, hotels, restaurants, off-licences and shops selling alcohol.
Eight documents for door, bar and floor staff and for the DPS or premises licence holder who signs the drugs policy, listed in the order you put them to work.
The pack covers drugs on licensed premises. Cellar work sits in the COSHH pack for line-cleaning chemicals and cellar gas, and the manual handling pack for kegs.
The staff training records and the incident and seizure register are the two things to be able to put your hand on.
The training pack carries the trainer, the date and the location. Each knowledge test carries the person's name, position, signature, the assessor's signature, the score and the date. The briefing sheets carry every person's name, signature and date.
How training is evidenced →Incidents, seizures handed to the police and the recorded toilet and quiet area checks go in one register. Refusals of entry have their own log in the search and refusal policy.
See the register in the pack →The refusals register for alcohol sales is in the underage sales pack, with the age verification policy and the staff training that go with it.
Underage sales pack →What the Acts say, and what a licensing review can do about it.
Section 8 makes it an offence for an occupier, or a person concerned in the management of premises, to knowingly permit or suffer any of these on the premises: producing a controlled drug, supplying one or offering to supply one, preparing opium for smoking, or smoking cannabis, cannabis resin or prepared opium.
The Act sets four licensing objectives, and the first is the prevention of crime and disorder (section 4). Under section 51, a responsible authority, which includes the police, or any other person can apply for a review of a premises licence.
On a review, section 52 lets the licensing authority modify the conditions of the licence, exclude a licensable activity, remove the DPS, suspend the licence for up to three months, or revoke it.
The search and refusal policy is built on consent. It starts from the position that staff have no power to search anyone. A customer is searched only if they agree, as a condition of entry, and only by an SIA licensed door supervisor, by a member of the same sex where at all possible, in view of CCTV and with a second member of staff present. If the customer refuses, they are refused entry and nobody searches them. A venue with no SIA licensed door supervisor has nobody who searches.
A licensing officer or the police will want a record that outlasts the shift the training happened on.
Scanning the QR code, or looking the reference up directly, opens a live record showing who was assessed, on what, and when: the same record a licensing officer, the police or your own management can check without asking you to find a filing cabinet.
Tell us about your venue and how many staff need training, and we will come back with a quote.