Audit calls for stricter narcotics oversight after San Jose firefighter’s drug thefts

A CITY AUDIT is recommending the San Jose Fire Department strengthen its drug tracking and inventory security after painkiller thefts by a firefighter led to patients receiving morphine from tampered vials.

The audit, released Monday, Nov. 24, recommends Fire Chief Robert Sapien’s department update its policies on storage and access to paramedic drug kits, timing of inventory inspections, as well as access to biometric narcotics safes that the department plans to roll out over the next year.