Olive Branch, Mississippi Receives Grant for New DUI Officer
December 7, 2007
According to the latest issue of the Desoto Times the city of Olive Branch will be adding a new DUI officer to the city payrolls courtesy of a $42,000 grant received through the state.
This is good news for everyone in Olive Branch. Adding a well-trained DUI officer should end some of the unneccesary arrests that occur each year when a poorly trained officer arrests someone for DUI who clearly is not intoxicated. The truth is that a well-trained DUI officer really helps the community in two ways. The first is that he gets people off the streets who shouldn’t be driving and the second way is that he actually cuts down on the number of arrests where people weren’t actually drunk.
Statistically speaking, DUI field sobriety tests are only accurate roughly 60% of the time. That means that a large number of people who are arrested each year because of failed sobriety tests were actually not intoxicated. That’s a pretty scary statistic. Just think about it. Up to 40% of the people arrested for merely failing a field sobriety test could possibly be not guilty. That’s why we need experienced law officers and that’s why you need a good dui lawyer.
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