ARTICLE 41 CHEMICAL DRUG TESTING Section 1. The City of Coral Springs, the Coral Springs Police Department and FOP have the responsibility to provide the community with the highest level of police services and to ensure that its employees have the physical and mental abilities to perform their assigned duties. Therefore, to ensure the integrity of the department and to preserve the public trust and confidence, this Article implements the policies and procedures for random drug-testing of members. Section 2. A. It is the policy of the Coral Springs Police Department that all members agree to submit to random drug testing. B. The application of this article with respect to drug testing does not abridge anything included in a union contract; nor does it infringe upon an employee's right to redress under grievance or other administrative or judicial proceedings. Section 3. For purposes of this Article, the following definitions apply: A. Sworn Employee - Those employees who have been formally vested with full law enforcement powers and authority. B. Supervisor - Those sworn employees assigned to a position having day-today responsibility for supervising subordinates, or who are responsible for commanding a work element. C. Drug Test or test - Means any initial screening test utilizing a sensitive, rapid, and reliable procedure using an immunoassay procedure; and/or any confirmation test using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. D. Random - Means unannounced drug testing. No more than 25% of the members will be tested in any given year of the contract. Members will be selected using a computer-generated random selection process based on members employee identification number. Selection will be conducted by the Human Resources Manager or designee and witnessed by the Drug Testing Coordinator and a representative of FOP (Lodge President or designee). Each member has an equal chance of being selected each time, regardless of prior selection. E. The Human Resources Manager or designee will conduct the selection process. After the Human Resources Manager or designee has accessed the computer program and conducted the process, a printout will be made of each random selection process. The selection printout will be signed by the Director of Human Resources or designee and immediately scanned and delivered via email to the Drug Testing Coordinator for member notifications. The Drug Testing Coordinator and FOP
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