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Gangs
Gangs on Meth
The drug is dangerous to law enforcement in several ways. The chemicals utilized are highly toxic and volatile. Clandestine labs are often booby trapped against the police.
March 13, 2008
Technology
Bill Would Establish Federal Agency To Regulate Crime Labs
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) has announced that he will introduce legislation to reform the forensic science field in early 2011.
December 27, 2010
Patrol
SF Police Close Drug Lab, Outsource Work
Private labs will test substances to determine if they are illicit drugs under departmental supervision. The department will continue to use its crime lab for ballistic testing and DNA analysis.
May 5, 2010
Technology
Hound Labs: Sniffing Out Marijuana
POLICE
The Hound is completely different in that it measures the amount of THC in a person's breath – which stays there for only a matter of hours at most. It measures blood alcohol content through breath as well.
October 10, 2016
Technology
TruNarc Handheld Narcotics Analyzer
Thermo Fisher Scientific
To save lives and protect law enforcement officers, banned substances need to be identified quickly, safely, and accurately.
August 28, 2018
Patrol
Clandestine Meth Labs
About 20 percent of all meth labs are discovered due to an explosion. Besides the obvious immediate concerns associated with any structure explosion, meth labs create a special set of problems for law enforcement. Police must be aware of these concerns and have a plan in place to mitigate them.
December 31, 2008
Technology
TruNarc Handheld Narcotics Analyzer
Thermo Fisher Scientific
To save lives and protect law enforcement officers, banned substances need to be identified quickly, safely, and accurately.
October 17, 2018
Editor's Notes
Synthetic Drugs: In-Custody Deaths May Spike
A face-chewing attack in Miami and several other bizarre assaults have opened law enforcement's eyes to a new wave of designer synthetic drugs that turn its users into monsters.
July 26, 2012
Patrol
Safe Narcotics Identification with the Thermo Scientific TruNarc Analyzer
Learn how the TruNarc offers field-based presumptive narcotics, precursor and cutting agent testing.
April 30, 2020
Patrol
Law Enforcement Coping with Elephant Tranquilizer ODs
From southern Ohio down to Alabama and increasingly up the Eastern Seaboard, drug users are dying by the scores in a strange new way: by overdosing on elephant tranquilizer.
March 24, 2017
Technology
California Police Getting Closer to Deploying Marijuana Breathalyzers
Police agencies in California are getting closer to acquiring and deploying new technology that can reportedly detect the presence of TCH in the system of drivers suspected of driving under the influence.
October 14, 2019
Special Units
Cold Pill Access Cut
Major drug stores across the country are putting over-the-counter cold medications out of reach of customers and limiting quantities sold to stem their use in creating methamphetamines.
January 29, 2004
Technology
Data-Sharing Website May Speed Response to New Illegal Drugs
The 'NPS Data Hub' will help forensic chemists identify new types of fentanyl and other narcotics more quickly.
July 13, 2018
Special Units
Club Drugs
The sale of club drugs such as ecstacy and LSD has been adopted as a way to fund the personal lifestyles of businessminded gang members. There is some evidence to support the fact that older, mobile gang members are now involved in the sale of these drugs as well.
March 31, 2002
Technology
Understanding Handheld Drug Detection Technologies
Handheld drug detection and identification tools can help officers make presumptive analysis of street drugs, including designer drugs, and alert them to hazardous materials.
December 8, 2021
Special Units
Federal Funding Cut Cripples Meth Enforcement
Police and sheriff's agencies have curtailed their enforcement of methamphetamine because they can no longer afford the clean-up costs associated with the labs, concludes an investigative report by the Associated Press.
August 10, 2011
Technology
More Border-Patrol Drones Being Borrowed by Other Agencies
Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, a harbinger of what is expected to become the commonplace use of unmanned aircraft by police.
January 15, 2014
Technology
Drug Detection and Officer Protection
Police need tools to identify unknown substances and to keep those materials from harming them.
August 31, 2018
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