Worrel v. Brown

Determination of the respondent Police Commissioner, dated September 21, 1990, which dismissed petitioner from his posi*447tion as a police officer, is unanimously confirmed, the petition denied and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County, Francis N. Pecora, J., entered May 10, 1991) is dismissed, without costs.

Petitioner, a veteran police officer, was dismissed from the Department after a random drug test detected the presence of cocaine in his urine. At the time of his dismissal, petitioner was a sergeant in…