Paul is doing job training tonight. He’s downtown in light armor picking up drug addicts. He is with Police Officers tonight. They find people who are visibly strung out and offer them food and cigarettes (and to not get arrested) in exchange for allowing the Drug Recognition Experts (DREs) to practice their tests. Paul is observing so he knows what the DRE officers are doing when he testifies after them in court.
Drug recognition tests are systematic and standardized examinations of persons suspected of drug impairment to determine: (1) whether the suspect actually is impaired; and if so, (2) Whether the impairment is drug- or medically-related; and if drugs, and (3) the broad category or combination of categories of drugs that is the likely cause of the observed impairment.
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