Fergerson v. City of New York

Determination of respondents, dated July 16, 1997, which dismissed petitioner from his position as a police officer, 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 [Richard Braun, JJ, entered January 5, 2000), dismissed, without costs.

Petitioner, a police detective, was dismissed from the Department after a random drug test detected the presence of cocaine in his urine. There is no basis upon which to disturb respondents’ credibility determinations (see, Matter of…