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NYPD to start random steroid
testing
TOM HAYS
AP
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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.
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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.
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