drug testing

[nyjetsfan86]

anyone know if the nypd test for steroids?

[jstraw428]

They sure dont......along with like every other job........should only be a 5 panel test for:
marijuana, coke, methylamphetimines, barbituates....and i think pcp

[stpete]

My guess would be no.

[KingTenderloin]

uh oh theres a cop among us

[Flex-Appeal]

Only way to test for it is GC/MS test. Very expensive as well.

[warchild]

actually they are...

NYPD to Start Random Steroid Testing
April 9th, 2008 @ 4:16pm
By TOM HAYS
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Police Department will soon begin randomly testing its 36,000 officers for steroid abuse in light of allegations that a criminal ring was supplying the drug to pumped-up officers.

Police officials insisted Wednesday that the decision to test for anabolic steroids _ first reported in The New York Post _ doesn't reflect a concern about widespread abuse at the nation's largest police department.

Instead, they said they wanted to drive home the point that using steroids without a prescription is illegal.

Since the NYPD already tests for narcotics, it "only makes sense to include steroids," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement.

The department plans to begin the urine testing, expected to cost about $1 million a year, in July. Currently, officers are selected at random and tested for heroin, cocaine, marijuana and other illegal drugs using hair samples.

Union officials declined to comment on the plan.

The department began re-examining its drug testing policy last year after several police officers were linked to the investigation of a Brooklyn pharmacy suspected of peddling millions of dollars of steroids and human growth hormone.

Records seized from the business indicated that its clientele included several NYPD officers who worked out at the same gym _ a revelation that prompted an internal probe.

Of the 19 officers tested for steroids, six were positive; all were either suspended or given desk duty.

Last week, the NYPD issued a lengthy memo reminding officers that anabolic steroids are a controlled substance that can cause "aggressive, anti-social or inappropriate behavior," and that bodybuilding "is not a legitimate medical use."


(Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

[Discipline_1]

i know somebody who is 28 and a nyc cop, he use to play football at u albany and i know he has juiced before and after he became a cop

[Discipline_1]

They sure dont......along with like every other job........should only be a 5 panel test for:
marijuana, coke, methylamphetimines, barbituates....and i think pcp

i thought that opiates was in that 5 panel test that most jobs test for... correct me if i am wrong jstraw!

[jstraw428]

Yeah, I forgot opiates.....been so long since I had to take one of those.....

[nyjetsfan86]

i know they started doing random tests but do they test for when you enter the academy. and they do a hair test does juice even show up on a hair test and if so does it stay longer in your hair than your piss?