EVERYONE at Port Adelaide – from the board to the boot cleaners – will face drug tests if CEO Keith Thomas is allowed to introduce an independent drug policy at Alberton.

The Power have already investigated the introduction of such a policy, but say they have been held back by the AFL.

Under the current AFL illicit drug policy players are granted three strikes, but can avoid a strike if they self-report.

Staff are not subjected to tests.

Thomas urged AFL clubs to take a stand on drugs in society and said he was "champing at the bit" to ensure his club was drug-free.

"If we were to introduce (a new policy), we'll introduce this staff-wide, board-wide, executive-wide because if you're representing Port Adelaide you're Port Adelaide," Thomas told radio station 5AA.

"If we're against drugs, we're all against drugs.

"That is the position we want to take and we're champing at the bit to get into that conversation with the powers that be.”

The AFL said the current illicit drug policy, introduced in 2005, was done so with agreement of the players through the AFL Players' Association.

A term of that agreement was that every player in the League would be bound by a blanket policy, which is why the Power aren't allowed to subject their players to their own terms.

"As part of the agreement with the AFL and the AFLPA, it's one policy across all 18 clubs as to how players at each club are treated," an AFL spokesperson said.

"Therefore at the moment clubs don't have the right to do separate testing themselves."

The Power's chief said he was not alone in his criticism of the League's current drug policy. 

He said clubs were blind about their players' problems and unable to offer support under the three-strike policy. 

"I want to know if one of my players has an issue and if we have that visibility, I want to get him into the help he requires straight away,” he said.

"I don't want to be guessing, I want to know, and at the moment we can't do that. 

"We've been saying, as other clubs have been saying, it (the existing ‘three-strike' system) is not right."