Derby Police Department rolls out drug dropbox for medications, illegal substances

DERBY, Kan. (KSNW) — The Derby Police Department is helping people safely discard old medications and illegal substances.

The department is rolling out a “drug dropbox” where people can place unwanted medicine and illegal substances, no questions asked.

“It’s completely anonymous,” Captain Derek Dunn with the Derby Police Department said. “We’re not going to track people down after the fact. We’re not going to research who deposits items into the box unless they would be exceptionally hazardous to us, you know, something that would be bad.”

Captain Dunn says they will dispose of the drugs.

“We have an incinerator we can use to burn drugs, so whenever somebody comes and deposits any items into the dropbox here, we take those out on a very regular basis to our incinerator, our department incinerator, and then we completely dispose of those using the incinerator,” he said.

The dropbox is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, outside the Derby police headquarters. They are not taking liquids, glass or syringes.

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