Handheld Drug Testing in the Field

Officers need to have fast and accurate tools for identifying unknown substances, and these three manufacturers are supplying them.
Officers need to have fast and accurate tools for identifying unknown substances, and these three manufacturers are supplying them.
Handheld drug detection and identification tools can help officers make presumptive analysis of street drugs, including designer drugs, and alert them to hazardous materials.
The free MobileDetect app adds automated drug detection and reporting capabilities, increasing accuracy and accountability for a complete drug testing solution.
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Defender1064 is a versatile and easy-to-use chemical analyzer that was designed to enhance officer safety.
Learn more about the 1064Defender and how this flexible tool can meet the requirements of your agency.
The new 1064Defender Raman Analyzer features a touchless, targeted methodology that enhances identification of street heroin and other fluorescent narcotics, without removing them from their packaging
“At one point during the pursuit, the driver of the Chevrolet Suburban stopped on the right shoulder, exited the vehicle and dropped two cardboard boxes off before returning to the vehicle and continuing to flee,” said the California Highway Patrol of Merced County.
Learn how the TruNarc offers field-based presumptive narcotics, precursor and cutting agent testing.
K-9 Nibbles, who was one of 31 pit bull puppies seized from a suspected dogfighting operation in Canada in 2015, is now out patrolling Craven County as a narcotics dog.
Sirchie LLC has launched the NARK II Hemp/CBD Screening Test. This presumptive field test will help law enforcement determine if an unknown substance is legal hemp/CBD or contains high enough levels of THC to merit further testing.
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