Criminal Justice

Concateno holds the contract to provide drug testing for the HM Prison Service Mandatory Drug Testing programme, which randomly tests prisoners to track drug use within prisons and to determine which types of drugs are being used.

Concateno supplies the kits used to collect the samples, provides a courier service to transport them and analyses the urine in our specialist UKAS accredited laboratory.

The easy to use collection kits make it simple to collect a sample, package it with the corresponding paperwork and send it to our laboratory. Samples arrive at the Canary Wharf laboratory under full chain of custody. The contract covers all prisons in England and Wales.

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Concateno holds the contract to provide drug testing for the HM Prison Service Compact Based Drug Testing (CBDT and formerly known as Voluntary Drug Testing).

The programme uses Concateno’s on-site rapid urine tests. These tests confirm that the prisoners are staying drug free, in compliance with an agreement signed by each prisoner who enters the programme.

The Concateno POC urine tests have been used for this testing programme since March 2000. The contract covers all prisons in England and Wales.

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Concateno holds the contract to provide drug testing for the Home Office’s Drug Interventions Programme.

Started in 2001, this initiative aims to break the link between Class A drug use and associated acquisitive crime by diverting offenders away from custody and into treatment.

Anyone who is arrested for a trigger offence is tested for opiates and cocaine in a custody suite. The test is carried out using Concateno’s Cozart® DDS®, an oral fluid device that tests for the two drugs in 90 seconds. Those who are charged and found guilty will have any positive test results taken into account when a sentence is passed. Some offenders may then receive a community sentence that includes attending drug treatment and compulsory drug testing, instead of a custodial sentence.

Testing as part of DIP is conducted in 173 police stations selected by the Home Office. Concateno has been the sole supplier of the tests used in custody suites as part of the DIP since the pilot in 2001. By the end of 2009 more than one million tests had been conducted under this programme.

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The Integrated Drug Treatment Service (IDTS) aims to integrate clinical and psychological treatment in prisons into a single system that works to the NTA’s (National Treatment Agency) Models of Care & Treatment Effectiveness Strategy.

‘IDTS seeks to ensure that problem drug users in prisons have access to the same quality of treatment as those in the community, and the same chance to rebuild their lives.’ National Treatment Agency

Concateno supplies a range of products and services to IDTS teams, including our on-site urine tests and the Cozart® DDS. Concateno’s blood borne virus testing service is used extensively across the Prison Service within IDTS, as prisoners are at a particularly high risk of contracting Hepatitis C.

Concateno’s Healthcare Division specialises in working with IDTS teams to provide the right package of testing products and services.

Products and Services

The following Concateno products and services are in use as part of the MDT, CBDT and DIP contracts:

Cozart Drug Detection System (DDS) - a point of care oral fluid test with handheld reader 
Laboratory urine testing - simple sample collection packs sent to Concateno’s specialist laboratory for analysis
Point of care urine testing - Concateno provides a range of simple to use point of care urine tests in various formats

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