What Police Chiefs Need to Know about Field Drug Identification Strategies in a Designer Drug World

Nancy Crump is currently an Assistant Crime Laboratory Administrator for the Phoenix Police Department Laboratory Services Bureau. She has held this position since November 2005. Since joining the Phoenix Police Department as a civilian employee in the Laboratory Services Bureau in 1998, she has worked as a Criminalist and Criminalist Supervisor in the Controlled Substances Section. Her duties have ranged from drug analysis, providing expert testimony, and training police officers in drug recognition to the creation, implementation, expansion and oversight of the Phoenix Police Department Field Identification (or CSO) program. This program was used as the model for a national program sponsored by the National Institute for Justice (NIJ) which will begin implementation as a pilot program in November 2006. Her current duties include oversight of the Firearms, Controlled Substances, Trace/Arson, and Latent Prints sections of the Crime Lab. Nancy earned her Bachelor's of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Utah in 1990. She attended the Phoenix Police Department's Enlightened Leadership Seminar in 2001 and also successfully completed the City of Phoenix Supervisor Academy in 2003.  She graduated from the inaugural class of the Leadership in Police Organizations (LPO) in Arizona. She is an AZPOST certified instructor and has presented numerous times for various organizations. Nancy is a member and a former board of director for the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. She is also a member of the Clandestine Laboratory Investigating Chemists Association, the Southwestern Association of Forensic Scientists, and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. She currently sits on the Arizona Forensic Science Academy board which actively provides training in Forensic Science to members of the Criminal Justice system in Arizona. 

Dr. Jonathan McGrath serves as Senior Policy Analyst with the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice, Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences in Washington, DC. He manages the NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence program and developed the DOJ Needs Assessment of Forensic Laboratories report to Congress published in 2019. Dr. McGrath is also a member of the IACP Forensic Science Committee under the Investigations Policy Council. Prior to joining NIJ in 2015, he was a forensic scientist with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Laboratories and Scientific Services Directorate in Houston, TX (2007-2011) and worked at CBP Lab headquarters office in Washington, DC (2011-2015) where he supported CBP's trade, forensic, and WMD operations programs. Dr. McGrath holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Georgia Tech, M.S. in Forensic Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Dallas.