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June 16, 2023 – Sgt. David Bentz said this type of training gives officers a big advantage over regular police academy training. โWe take the officers, give them 24 hours of training, one day of lecture and theory, and basically 2 days of how to perform standardized field sobriety testing so that we can make good DUI arrests on the street and get impaired drivers off the road.โ Bentz says the next step of the training is ARIDE, advanced roadside impairment detection training, which is more drug related, but begins with the building blocks of good a solid standardized field sobriety test. โSo for the volunteers, itโs basically a 5 hour day. We start them drinking a little bit early so that we can get them up to a level where theyโre eyes do what we need eyes to do when youโre impaired. For the officers, itโs about learning what those eyes do when you are impairedโ said Bentz. โAnd the biggest part of today is the mechanics of that testing because itโs standardized. So they have to issue the test in the same way to every person that they issue them to. So thatโs why they repetitively do tests over and over and over.โ
