{"id":379,"date":"2020-09-16T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T10:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/?page_id=379"},"modified":"2020-09-18T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:16:16","slug":"ean-lewin-managing-director-and-founder-d-tec-international","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/festival-content\/ean-lewin-managing-director-and-founder-d-tec-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Ean Lewin, Managing Director and Founder, D.tec International"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-379\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-379-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-379-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><div id=\"pgc-379-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\" ><div id=\"panel-379-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Podcast: Drug driving \u2013 the real extent of the problem<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div id=\"pgc-4839-0-1\" class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-mobile-last\">\n<div id=\"panel-4839-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\">\n<div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<div>With Dtec supplying DrugWipe to every police force in England, Wales and Scotland - and five years of data from police enforcement of drug driving - many forces are now seeing significantly higher levels of drug drive arrests than those for drink driving.<\/div>\n<p>In 2019, Merseyside Police had over 2,000 drug drive arrests, 50% more than their drink drive figure\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and 50% of these were \u2018at work\u2019 drivers.<\/p>\n<p>If we all consider drink driving to be a serious blight on road safety that has taken 50 years to make socially unacceptable, how are we to get Government to properly target drug drivers - and not take 50 years?<\/p>\n<p>Solutions could include: new legislation,\u00a0better education,\u00a0ring fenced police funding,\u00a0better laboratory confirmation and a 'more aware' judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>All of these topics, and more, will be discussed in this podcast to be broadcast as part of the Festival.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"widget-title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-380\" src=\"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ean-Lewin-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ean-Lewin-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/roadsafetygb.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ean-Lewin.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/>Ean Lewin, Managing Director and Founder, D.tec International<\/h3>\n<p>Ean Lewin has built D.tec International over the past 25 years to become a leading specialist \u2018turn key\u2019 solution provider for drug and alcohol testing in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>D.tec supplies over 300 SMEs and Plcs, many of which are national brands involved in logistics, bus and coach travel, airlines \u2013 and even F1.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the introduction of the Road Traffic Act s5a legislation, D.tec International also now supplies every police force in England, Wales and Scotland with Home Office type approved road side drug screeners.<\/p>\n<p>D.tec is responsible for testing more employees than the police test drug drivers - and the \u2018more drug\u00a0 driving then drink driving\u2019 results seen by police in the past year bears a direct relationship to what\u00a0D.tec\u00a0sees in the world of work.<\/p>\n<p>an believes that everyone - from companies to councils - needs to step-up to counter this societal issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-379-0-2\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Dtec supplying DrugWipe to every police force in England, Wales and Scotland &#8211; and five years of data from police enforcement of drug driving &#8211; many forces are now seeing significantly higher levels of drug drive arrests than those for drink driving. 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