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Sheriff's office deploys handheld drug analyzers to speed testing and reduce officer exposure
Summary
Clatsop County purchased two handheld Therma/TruNarc drug analyzers to allow rapid, on-site testing of seized substances. Sheriff’s staff said the devices improve officer safety, provide immediate chemical identification from a library of hundreds of substances and speed data-sharing with public health and emergency departments.
Clatsop County — The Clatsop County Sheriff's Office has acquired two handheld narcotics analyzers and is making them available to local agencies for immediate, on-scene drug testing, Christina Schultz, the county's deflection program coordinator, told the advisory council.
Schultz said the devices use a laser to scan drugs through their containers — plastic bags, bottles or liquids — and compare the results to a reference library. "It literally gives us an immediate readout of exactly what the drug is," she said, adding the device's library includes more than 800 substances and is updated regularly.
The county purchased two units with grant funding; one is stationed at the sheriff's office and one in Seaside. Schultz said…
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