The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has said that the department discovered field-testing kits for cocaine indicated false positives.
In a statement released by JSO, during a drug investigation in the Duval County pre-trial detention facility, a narcotics detective found that multiple over-the-counter substances were indicating false positive results on Scott Company Presumptive Field-Testing Kits. The substances that were tested were not cocaine.In response to the detective alerting the department, all police officers immediately stopped using any of the field-testing kits.
“Earlier today, SAO leadership notified the Chief Judge for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida and members of the local criminal defense bar of JSO’s discovery,” JSO said in a written statement.According to the sheriff’s office, JSO has used Scott Company Presumptive Field-Testing Kits for cocaine for over a decade without indication of any issue pertaining to efficacy and reliability.
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