Report Summary
This report provides members of the Forensic Services Committee with an overview of the Drug Driving Update.
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Meeting
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Forensic Services Committee - 7 August 2025
Date : 07 August 2025
Location : Online
Six-Month Timeline
The six-month timeline, agreed within the Drug Driving MOU, remains live with performance reported monthly via Operation Hitch.
The collective flexibility introduced via the stretch targets detailed within the timeline is used to support increased compliance from incident date to COPFS receipt, as detailed below. The dip in Section 4 performance in April was due to one late submission case (c180 days for submission and c40 days in lab).
PSoS performance has been consistent, with 94% of cases being submitted within the 28-day stretch target. The chart below illustrates the number of cases submitted by PSoS out with the 28 days.
Two Section 4 cases have been rejected with no analysis completed, due to late submission, since the implementation of the six-month STL. This equates to around 0.1% of the drug driving cases submitted over this time period.
As per the MoU a further three drug driving cases have undergone reduced analysis within Q1 due to late submission. This relates to around 0.3% of the drug driving cases submitted within Q1.
