provides powerful evidence to allow the judge or jury to reach an informed conclu- sion. Tere are over 9,000 DREs through- out the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, and China today, but this number represents less than one per- cent of all law enforcement officers. ❚
Endnotes
1 The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Rocky Mountain HIDTA, Vol. 1/ August 2013, p.5.
2 Guohua Li, et. al., Drug use and fatal motor vehicle crashes: A case-control study, Accident Analysis and Prevention 60 (2013), p. 208.
3 Strengthen Efforts to Prevent Drug Use in Our Communities, Office of National Drug Control Policy, http://www.
whitehouse.gov/ondcp/strengthen-efforts-to-prevent-drug- use-in-our-communities (accessed 05/10/14).
4 Bigelow, George E., et. al, Identifying Types of Drug Intoxication: Laboratory Evaluation of a Subject-Examination Procedure, U.S.D.O.T. (NHTSA), May 1984, p.4.
Mr. Kyle Clark is a retired police sergeant from the Naples, Florida police department and has been a certified Drug Recognition Expert since 1999 and a DRE Instructor since
2001. He currently trains law enforcement officers at the Institute of Police Technology and Management in the detection of impaired driving and traffic crash reconstruction, and serves as the state DRE Coordinator for Florida. He is also a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in the Drug Recognition Expert section, and is a member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the IACP Highway Safety Committee that oversees the impaired driving detection training programs and standards.
The DRE serves as an important connector, or bridge, between the impairment observed at roadside and the toxicology report.
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