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FROM DC WATCH WEBSITE

January 8, 1998

Dear Mr. DiGenova:

I am writing to you at the request of certain employees of the Metropolitan Police Department who have brought to my attention allegations of misconduct and possible criminal violations by officials of the Metropolitan Police Department, possibly including the Chief of Police. The allegations pertain to irregularities in the MPD drug testing procedures, and may involve other areas of the operations of the Police and Fire Clinic. The employees . . . have already been subject to harassment for having reported certain irregularities in the drug testing program through MPD channels. Also, their concern is heightened by the fact that members of the MPD Internal Affairs Division are directly implicated in some of the incidents of misconduct.

In this letter, Mr. Deso recounts in great detail allegations by police officers and civilian police department employees that there were "gross misconduct and possible criminal violations in the manner in which the drug testing program at the Clinic has been and is being administered." These employees allege that a urine sample provided by then Captain Robert C. White, who was then Commander of the Narcotics Branch of the Morals Division, tested positive for cannabis. They further allege that several highly irregular steps were taken to obtain a different urine sample that had possibly been provided by another officer, to submit that sample to a private testing laboratory as Captain White's, and that this sample tested negative for drugs. They allege that at that time there was "a systematic effort to subvert the integrity of the drug testing procedures at the Police and Fire Clinic and to manipulate the procedures so that desired results can be obtained." Further, these employees allege that after the police officer submitted complaints about these matters to the Assistant Branch Commander of the General Investigations Branch of the Internal Affairs Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, then Lt. Sonya Proctor, he was ordered by his commanding officer "not to discuss his complaints with anyone."