The head of the NYPD's vaunted CSI-type units was dumped yesterday because federal and state authorities were kept in the dark about an embarrassing 2002 integrity test that caught two lab technicians lying about evidence, The Post has learned. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly transferred Deputy Chief Denis McCarthy, a 27-year veteran, from commander of the Forensic Investigations Division, which includes the Police Laboratory, the Crime Scene Unit and the Bomb Squad, to a patrol spot in Manhattan. Sources said the move against the respected chief was meant to send a stern message that the top cop expects the highest standards at the NYPD's critical scientific and technological units. Kelly is also expected to announce the creation a "forensic science review committee" to evaluate the lab and the overall division, its quality controls and its adherence to standards. Chairing the review committee will be Philip Pulaski, a forensic and engineering expert, currently the NYPD's deputy commissioner of operations. Investigators have reviewed all cases handled by the two technicians, and have uncovered no evidence of any other shortcuts or impropriety, sources said. Officials don't believe any convictions will be overturned because of the lab technicians' actions. The shakeup was prompted after the state's accreditation board received an anonymous tip recently that claimed technicians somewhere in the state several years ago were caught "dry labbing" - providing shortcut results without completing all tests. The tipster did not name the employees or the lab. The state reached out to various agencies, including the NYPD, which began culling records. NYPD Internal Affairs records showed the two technicians flunked an annual integrity test in August 2002 where they were given drug evidence to analyze. Sources said one "criminalist," identified as Elizabeth Mansour, 58, claimed 37 bags of drugs contained cocaine when only 34 did. The sources said she subsequently retired, but not before she suffered a heart attack at the lab on the day she was to be questioned by IAB, sources said. The other civilian technician, Rameschandra Patel, 64, reported cocaine hits in six bags, when only five had the drug. Charges were filed against him, but he continues in a desk job answering phones outside FID while fighting the allegations. The flunked test was never reported - as required - to state and federal officials. A source said W. Mark Dale, who ran the NYPD lab at the time, was questioned recently about the incident. Dale claimed he believed he did not have to report about an internal IAB integrity test to the state. He retired in 2004. McCarthy was transferred, the sources said, because the incident occurred on his watch.
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