Remeber they will also do a polygraph and they do ask if you have ever uswd an illegal substance. You fail poky theres a good chance u wont get picked up. When I retired I tried going out for local police dept. Since I could not tell them the xact ammount of times I smoked dope between ages 11-14 they dropped me from hiring proceas. Yes I could not give them a hard number with out lying and they wanted a hard number. What a bunch of dousche bags period. They want you to lie to catch in a lie and then they stop yournprocess and if another agency inquires why they stopped the process they can say it was because of being deceitful so that automatically kills your chances anywhere else. No i dont have a good opinion of cops or their tactics.
thats shitty the pay and retirement plans for cops are great, also remember that just cause it happened at one station doesn't mean itll happen at another theres some places where no drug tests are even taken, others require you to have a college education, all depends on where u live