Opinion
October 21, 1991
Appeal from the Family Court, Queens County (Schindler, J.).
Ordered that the order of disposition is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The appellant contends that the petition was jurisdictionally defective because, absent a laboratory report, it was predicated on hearsay allegations (see, Family Ct Act § 311.2). We disagree. The supporting deposition of the arresting officer was based on the officer's own observations of the appellant, and on his expertise as a member of a special narcotics unit in identifying the substance retrieved from the appellant's pocket as cocaine in crack form. The deposition therefore satisfied the requirement in Family Court Act § 311.2 (3) for "non-hearsay allegations of the factual part of the petition" (cf., Matter of Detrece H., 78 N.Y.2d 107; Matter of David T., 75 N.Y.2d 927, 928-929). Harwood, J.P., Eiber, Balletta and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.