The purpose of DAR training is to show that the person you are dealing with is under the influence right now. A chemical test will only show that they have used.
DAR: The Best Kept Secret As DAR is being taught for use in the workplace, an oſten asked question is, “Why do I need to know if they are high or not? I can just have them take a urine test and that will show drug use.” While this is correct, it is an easy way out and many other employees using drugs will slip through the cracks. Te purpose of DAR training is to show
that the person you are dealing with is under the influence right now. A chemical test will only show that they have used. Why is this important? A recent example occurred with a probation officer who had encountered her probationer on the street. She had received DAR training and quickly saw that the probationer was under the influence of a drug. Using her training, she determined that he was under the influence of cannabis. She took him into custody and took a urine test that would normally show a presumptive result of drug presence (point of care test). However, the test showed that THC was not present in the urine specimen. Te probation officer tested the sample using a K2/Spice test, she quickly determined the probationers irrational behavior was due to being under the influence of spice. Had the probation officer gone through her normal procedures, this would have been missed. DAR also has been used to reduce
liability. Major transportation companies have used people trained in DAR to greet employees whose task it is to drive large shipments across the country. By deploying skilled people to identify drug use, they stop the driver from leaving the business if they are high. As a police officer, I worked major collisions where employees, high on drugs, crashed company vehicles. In one case, an 8-year old girl was killed. The driver had been abusing a prescribed depressant medication when he was driving a company vehicle. He would have come up positive on a drug screen, but that does little good from preventing him from driving away in the first place.
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Where Did DAR Come From? DAR was born from the Drug Recognition Expert Program (DRE), which is now worldwide. However, certified DREs must go through two weeks of classroom training plus one week of field training. Additionally, DRE training was originally made for traffic officers doing DUI investigations involving drugs. This makes it so that DRE training is impossible to disperse on a wide scale. Large agencies with several thousand officers usually only have a few DREs on hand. Smaller departments may have only one…or none. In the late 1980s, the Glendale, CA
Police Department developed the DAR program. Reducing the DRE process from 12 steps to 7, it cut a drug evaluation down from one hour to 10 minutes. Additionally, the modular process of the course made it so that an entire agency could be trained on drug influence procedures. As an example, almost every officer in my 90-officer department is trained in DAR. We average almost one drug influence arrest a day (and most of those people are employed).
DAR—The 7-Step Process In order to determine drug influence, you must administer tests similar to roadside sobriety tests. In DAR, we use 7 steps taken from the 12-step DRE process. What did we remove? Things not needed to show an inability to operate a motor vehicle safely were removed. This includes the typical standardized field sobriety tests (walk and turn, finger to nose, heel to toe) as well as body temperature and blood pressure. The 7 steps include the following:
Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (eye movement also called “dancing eyes”) Vertical Gaze Nystagmus Lack Of Convergence
Pulse (taken 3 times during your contact) Romberg Stand
Pupillary Comparison Pupillary Reaction to Light summer 2015
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