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Chief orders drug lab closed permanently
S.F. POLICE
May 06, 2010|By Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
The San Francisco Police Department will close its scandal-marred drug lab permanently and use outside testers to analyze narcotics evidence, Police Chief George Gascón said Wednesday.
"We have determined that we would be better served" by having independent laboratories test seized substances to determine if they are drugs, Gascón said at a news conference.
That will enable the Police Department's crime lab at Hunters Point to focus on testing of weapons and DNA evidence, areas that are "quite frankly of greater importance to our crime-fighting efforts," Gascón said.
http://cbs5.com/local/sfpd.drug.lab.2.1677036.html
Chief orders drug lab closed permanently
S.F. POLICE
May 06, 2010|By Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
The San Francisco Police Department will close its scandal-marred drug lab permanently and use outside testers to analyze narcotics evidence, Police Chief George Gascón said Wednesday.
"We have determined that we would be better served" by having independent laboratories test seized substances to determine if they are drugs, Gascón said at a news conference.
That will enable the Police Department's crime lab at Hunters Point to focus on testing of weapons and DNA evidence, areas that are "quite frankly of greater importance to our crime-fighting efforts," Gascón said.
http://cbs5.com/local/sfpd.drug.lab.2.1677036.html