Controlled Substance Investigations

Question 0

Why should street cops work drugs?

Answer 0

1) drug dealers and users are on streets
2) patrol officers have potential to see more
3) traffic stops yield drugs
4) drugs = burglaries, theft, person crimes
5) most property crimes connected with drug use
6) talking to people can help find drugs

Question 1

What are some reasons people use drugs?

Answer 1

Seek pleasure

Escape from reality

Addiction

Seek to alter mood

Medical

Question 2

What is the manufacture of thc?

Answer 2

Plants grow 2-18 feet

Grow period 7-26 weeks

Question 3

Indoor cultivation for thc?

Answer 3

Blackened or foiled windows

Potting soil or soil nutrients

Large attic

Large/small electric bill

Purchase of expensive light fixtures

Question 4

Thc cultivation outdoors?

Answer 4

Remote locations

Booby traps warning devices guard dogs

Well used foot trails

Trees brush large farm crops

Question 5

What are narcotic analgesics?

Answer 5

Opium and podium derivates

Naturally occurring: codeine, opium, morphine

Synthetic and semi synthetic: heroin, dialidid, methadone

Question 6

Characteristics of heroin?

Answer 6

Flat dust like powder, packaged in small balloons

White to brown color

Tar heroin is sticky tar like substance

Vinegar/ fish like smell

Question 7

Cocaine characteristics?

Answer 7

Dry powdery substance with crystal flakes

White to tan color

Usually bindled in paper-kept dry

Crack is made w/ baking soda and has thick lumpy dry dough look and smell like baking soda

Question 8

Meth characteristics?

Answer 8

P2P= prop dope

Mixing and washing in a flask

Moist powder or lumps w/color from bleach white to dark tan

P2P has cat like urine smell

Kept in small plastic bindles moist

Question 9

LSD?

Answer 9

Liquid drops placed on blotted paper

Sold on blotted paper

Odorless, colorless, tasteless

Sold on candy or sugar cubes

Question 10

PCP?

Answer 10

White crystalline powder

Diluted in water and sold as liquid

Applied to leafy material like oregano, mint or thc

Question 11

What are the purpose of informants?

Answer 11

Gather information not available to officer

Gain firsthand intelligence

Negotiate with cautious suspects

Question 12

Prior to selection of an informant, what must you check for?

Answer 12

At least 18 years old

Not on parole/probation

Not addicted to drugs/in rehab

Have not been found unreliable

Question 13

What are informant motivations?

Answer 13

Reduction in criminal sentence

Revenge on ex

Monetary incentives by police

Wanna be, ego boost

Seek to infiltrate police

Question 14

What are ways to properly select an informant?

Answer 14

Suspect you arrested

Recommended by another officer

Walk into police station

Irate family or friends

Question 15

What are requirements to making a confidential and reliable informant (CRI)selections?

Answer 15

Establish who the person is
What he knows
Why they want to help
Establish reliability

Question 16

What are some patrol tactics for drugs?

Answer 16

Vehicle code

ID driver

Listen to conversations

Smell odors

Question 17

How should you search a vehicle?

Answer 17

Top to bottom

Exterior to interior

Left to right

Front to back

Question 18

What are private business that may help in a investigation?

Answer 18

Telephone companies

Public utilities

Credit agencies

Labor unions

Question 19

What is included in a Field drug test kits?

Answer 19

Instructions

Container for vials

Vials of liquid used in test

Question 20

What are the importance and limitations of field drug test?

Answer 20

Help establish PC

Establish type of scheduled drug

Field test are not acceptable as proof in court

Only crime lab test are positive proof