The news report wouldn’t show the real person for security reasons, bear in mind he’s applying to be a copper in a part of the UK where there is still an unresolved civil war!
if anything getting into PSNI would be harder than other UK police services for the same reasons, and if he’d shaved all his hair off it would be obvious at the medical..
I think he must have genuine medical reasons and the real argument is more that its not acceptable for an employer to make someone go through a more painful or complicated procedure, nor refuse their legitimate application simply because of a medical condition which doesn’t otherwise prevent him doing the job.
the other option would be to abandon the requirement for drug testing – maybe not feasible for the Police but the more costly and rule-bound drug testing is made its the sort of thing what make private sector companies think twice about implementing it, so its a good thing this has happened..
