JOB STRESS PUSHES COPS TO ADDICTION

Officers get free rehab to cope with drug and booze problems

- ISAAC CROWSON

POLICE officers are being driven to drink and drugs by the stresses of the job, experts warn.

A third are classed as heavy drinkers while at least one a month loses their job due to drug-taking.

The problem is so bad that from this week addicts get free support in a Police Federation partnership with rehab sites Help 4 Addiction and Rehubs.

Officers will be able to join an online rehab programme of video courses.

Help 4 Addiction's founder Nicholas Conn is a former officer who quit in 2009 over a cocaine habit.