Posted: 7/26/2006 12:36:34 PM EDT
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Doh! Florida Police DUI Instructor Arrested for Drunk Driving Updated: July 26th, 2006 12:21 PM EDT LISA J. HURIASH South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul. 26 -- Plantation -- A veteran officer and police academy DUI instructor was driving drunk, naked from the waist down, and speeding on Florida's Turnpike at 90 mph when she was pulled over by an Orange County Sheriff's deputy on the night of Dec. 9, according to a Plantation Police Internal Affairs report released this week. She had a large open bottle of Southern Comfort in her car, which her attorney later argued was used to train police recruits. Officer Laurie Primeau, 47, has been suspended without pay until Aug. 8. The 1994 Plantation Officer of the Year has been with the department for almost 27 years. The report states she drew the attention of a police officer when she swerved into his lane and "almost collided" with him. "I asked her, 'Where are your pants?' and I think she answered, 'I don't know,'" Deputy David Alvarado told Plantation investigators. "Kinda shocked me." Alvarado said he asked for backup because "I didn't want to be alone too long with a naked female on the side of the road." He asked her again about her pants and she reached for her sweatpants and she put them on, he said. Alvarado told investigators that Primeau "was sweating real bad. Her face was real red. Her eyes were bloodshot." He told investigators she failed a few roadside sobriety exercises. Primeau refused a Breathalyzer test, according to the report, and Orange County Animal Control was called to take custody of two dogs she had in the car while she was taken to jail. She remained there for five days until she called a bail bondsman. The Internal Affairs report shows she told investigators that "she does not know how to perform the finger to nose test" and she "extols her expertise as a DUI instructor ... ." Primeau was found guilty of drunken driving in a Jan. 26 criminal jury trial in Orange County. Her attorney argued the whiskey bottle was used for police academy training, which she had performed earlier in the day, according to records. The location of the training was not disclosed. Primeau was given a speeding ticket, fined $647 and sentenced to 50 hours of community service. Her driver's license was suspended for 180 days, and she was put on a period of probation that ended Tuesday. According to police, when Primeau returned to work with a suspended license, she worked in the dispatch unit and in "odd jobs" in the communications department. Her suspension from the department began June 27. When she returns to work again in August, she will be placed back on road patrol, city officials said. Police Chief Larry Massey, who was on vacation Tuesday and unavailable for comment, wrote a June 22 memo to Primeau, citing her years of "exemplary service and a virtually spotless record" that included multiple letters of commendation. He also tells her in the memo "there will be no second chances." If she violates department policy or engages in drunken driving again, the chief told Primeau, "I am placing you on notice that you will be terminated." Although Massey said she gave a statement under oath to Internal Affairs that differs from the Orange County Sheriff's Office reports -- Primeau told investigators she was driving only 55 mph, was wearing a bathing suit bottom and the bottle found in her car did not have alcohol, but had been washed out with dish soap -- Massey writes: "You simply may have been too drunk to remember exactly what happened." Primeau, who apologized to the department during the investigation for having "tarnished the badge and ... humiliated everybody here," could not be reached for comment through a police union representative. |
Wet lab. Our DUI seminar is three days. thew first two days are classroom instruction. the third day paid roll players get drunk to various levels of intoxication and the student have them do FSTs and estimate their level of impairment. Yes, we pay "actors" $17.00 an hour to get shit faced. There is no shortage of volunteers. |
They used to let us do it. 
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damn I have found my calling! 
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Sometimes when doing field sobriety tests, the people being tested should, well, have BEEN DRINKING. It's like asking why do you need rifles to teach marksmanship. |
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She obviously isn’t any good at teaching people how to drive drunk. In fact she broke several cardinal rules of drunk driving. Keep your clothes on. Nothing says “intoxicated” like a nekkid driver. Only drive 5mph over the speed limit. If you go any slower the cops will know you’re drunk, or think you’re stoned, and if you go faster the cops might just pull you over to see if you’re wearing pants. Make sure you don’t weave. Alcohol reduces your mental ability but it doesn’t take all that much brain power to operate a motor vehicle. However you absolutely must use all of what you have to concentrate on driving. Turn off the music and don’t go changing channels or fiddling with the AC controls. Just keep your hands at 10 and 2 and watch the damn road. Stay off the Interstates and major highways. A person can probably manage to drive two or three miles when they are shitfaced. But you are in over your head if you try to drive 20 miles on an Interstate somewhere. |
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I recently participated in Field Sobriety Testing Class. I got to drink for free. I blew .074 before the FST's started and a .072 when they ended. I was hoooked up five times for DUI during the test.  I don't think she should have been allowed to come back activity duty as an LEO. |
There's the rest of the story. |
and she wanted to cuddle."
Hmm. That's a disappointment. I was kinda thinking of her as a female Ron White. You have to admit, this sounds like something he'd do.
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I was trying to make a joke, guess it failed horribly! |
Words to live by. |
