ADVANCED COURSE … Around 20 Williams and Defiance County officers gathered to glean top notch knowledge from the Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement course. Pictured here are some of the officers listening intently to how one can establish valid reasons to suspect impaired driving at the vehicle window from Chief Rob Kohli from the Shawnee Township Police Department.
By: Anna Wozniak
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
anna@thevillagereporter.com
The officers of Williams County saw another training opportunity last week, this time in the form of a federally funded Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement course.
This course aims to provide training on current trends in articulating observations, detecting and identifying drivers that are under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or a combination thereof.
They do this in the hopes of reducing the number of driving incidents, serious injuries, and fatal crashes related to impaired drivers.
This course also aims to help the officers work more cohesively with their prosecutors, so that cases have a better chance of creating consequences for this dangerous behavior.
This course is in addition to the SFSTs and the A.R.I.D.E., with the purpose of refining the skills necessary for this task underneath certified Drug Recognition Experts.
This training was hosted by the Williams County Sheriff’s Office, with nearly 20 officers from the Edgerton, Stryker, and City of Defiance police departments in attendance.