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In the midst of an FBI investigation and a federal corruption trial involving officers in the Narcotics Bureau of the Buffalo Police Force, the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association and city and department officials are debating changes in staffing qualifications for Narcotics detectives. The union insists that a seniority-based system is not only the fair way to make staffing decisions, but that if followed it would not have led to the four officers on trial becoming narcotics detectives. The police department administration and the PBA are both accusing each other of a failure to bargain in good faith.