A Taoyuan policeman has been charged with document forgery after he was found to have given his urine to three drug addicts to help them fake urine tests they were obliged to undergo regularly, the Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office said.
Based on the indictment issued on Tuesday, the incident took place on April 1 last year, when the three men reported to the Dalun police station in Jhongli Precinct to submit their urine test samples.
Prosecutors said a policeman surnamed Su (蘇), 42, who worked at the police station at the time, was found to have given six bottles of his urine to each of the three men to help them pass the tests.
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Prosecutors said that Su is believed to have run the scheme to boost his work performance score.
The men were required to regularly undergo urine tests due to their prior drug addictions, despite having been discharged from rehabilitation.
On April 1 last year, the three men signed their names on the samples to confirm it was their urine, with Su then sealing them with the stamp of the police station chief, surnamed Chen (陳), before they were sent to testing company SGS, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors added that Su’s suspected scheme was discovered by Chen when the urine samples were about to be sent for testing.
Proesecutors said that Su admitted to supplying the urine, adding that statements were taken from the three men who were to be tested.
However, the indictment said that the three men were exempted from prosecution because it was not possible to determine whether they had taken drugs.
Former drug users are subject to regular drug testing even after being discharged from rehabilitation, police said.
If they refuse to comply, police could apply for permission from prosecutors to force them to undergo testing.
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