How Many Arrest?

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How many arrest have you made in your career?

Subject: Re: How Many Arrest? Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:28 pm

Are you serious? I would have no idea.

Posting Rank:Trooper Posts : 99 Join date : 2009-02-05

NBW791 wrote:: Are you serious? I would have no idea.

You must have made alot of arrest in your career!

Subject: Re: How Many Arrest? Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:09 pm

I work a busy metro area, so yes. I also worked at PD for about 2 1/2 years before being a trooper, so there are all those arrests too. Plenty of DUIs, warrant arrests, domestic violence, shop lifters, the standard traffic stuff like driving while suspended......I would venture to say at least 500 at a bare minimum.

Subject: Re: How Many Arrest? Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:24 am

NBW791 wrote:: I work a busy metro area, so yes. I also worked at PD for about 2 1/2 years before being a trooper, so there are all those arrests too. Plenty of DUIs, warrant arrests, domestic violence, shop lifters, the standard traffic stuff like driving while suspended......I would venture to say at least 500 at a bare minimum.

Nice Record you have alot under your belt.

Subject: Re: How Many Arrest? Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:40 pm

Thanks...trying for a record number of DUIs this year. We'll see how that works out....

Subject: Re: How Many Arrest? Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:08 pm

NBW791 wrote:: Thanks...trying for a record number of DUIs this year. We'll see how that works out....

Good luck with that! My personal best was 194 DUI arrests. The same year my younger brother made 415 DUI arrests and set a new Georgia record. He was on a DUI Task Force at the time and I was just a regular road trooper.

Subject: Re: How Many Arrest? Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:49 pm

Holy cow.....that's impressive. I didn't mean a state record, just my OWN record, and I clearly don't see me getting 415 in a year!

I have a few questions though about this though:

#1 - Do you have a BAT van you call to the side of the road so you can just hook them and have them blow right there or do you still have to take them to the jail to do everything?

#2 - How long are your DUI reports? Are they a lengthy, detailed narrative or a pretty basic, "Saw drunk, arrested same" report? Mine are:
* An arrest report (fill in the blank stuff)
* Drug/Alcohol influence report (front & back page, fill in the blank, check boxes for clues of impairment and about 30 questions to ask them if they waive their rights
* Tow inventory (easy 5 minutes or less)
* Narrative, which is usually 3 to 5 pages typed

#3 - How long does it take you to complete a DUI report? I usually spend 2 hours from the stop until the I leave the jail, and another probably 3 hours doing paperwork. I sit down and watch my video tape very closely to get incriminating quotes, make sure I get all the clues down pat, etc., so if I get a drunk Friday and Saturday night, I'll spend most the night either Sunday or Monday in the office typing. It's time consuming, but it does keep me out of court.

#4 - Do you have administrative driver's license hearings? Around here, there is the criminal side of the DUI and the administrative side that pertains to their driver's license suspension. If they request a hearing, which many do just to see if the officer will show up, then you have to go to that, and might go to criminal (traffic) court later down the road.

#5 - What type of area do you work? I'm in a metro where I work 100+ crashes a year, a lot of special assignments and I switch back and forth every week between days and evenings.

#6 - Did you work a straight midnight shift that year? One of my classmates in another part of the state had about 150 drunks last year, but they were working all midnight shift. Heck, I'm home by the time the bars close most nights! :-)

Just curious how you do it! The same questions go for your brother too. I assume on a DUI task force that was ALL he did that year. Man....that's a ton of drunks. I think the average number of days worked a year is about 260 by the time you take off vacation, etc, so that's still almost 2 a night. Did he get burnt out by the end of that?

Subject: Re: How Many Arrest? Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:30 pm

NBW791 wrote:: Holy cow.....that's impressive. I didn't mean a state record, just my OWN record, and I clearly don't see me getting 415 in a year!

I have a few questions though about this though:

#1 - Do you have a BAT van you call to the side of the road so you can just hook them and have them blow right there or do you still have to take them to the jail to do everything?

Back in the day I never had the luxury of a BAT trailer and neither did my brother. You took them to jail and did everything. We do use a BAT trailer for special details now. After the Georgia/Alabama football game this past year we made 106 DUI arrests using two BAT trailers.

#2 - How long are your DUI reports? Are they a lengthy, detailed narrative or a pretty basic, "Saw drunk, arrested same" report? Mine are:
* An arrest report (fill in the blank stuff)
* Drug/Alcohol influence report (front & back page, fill in the blank, check boxes for clues of impairment and about 30 questions to ask them if they waive their rights
* Tow inventory (easy 5 minutes or less)
* Narrative, which is usually 3 to 5 pages typed

The reports have gotten longer and much more detailed over the years. This is just my observation but a narrative that is 3 to 5 pages typed is too much information. Our typical narrative is 1-2 pages typed. Your certainly don't won't to duplicate information. Since I haven't seen your report I am merely speculating.

#3 - How long does it take you to complete a DUI report? I usually spend 2 hours from the stop until the I leave the jail, and another probably 3 hours doing paperwork. I sit down and watch my video tape very closely to get incriminating quotes, make sure I get all the clues down pat, etc., so if I get a drunk Friday and Saturday night, I'll spend most the night either Sunday or Monday in the office typing. It's time consuming, but it does keep me out of court.
I would say most GA troopers spend around 1-1.5 hours from the stop time until they're back in service. It is not uncommon for a trooper to have 3 DUI arrests in a shift.

#4 - Do you have administrative driver's license hearings? Around here, there is the criminal side of the DUI and the administrative side that pertains to their driver's license suspension. If they request a hearing, which many do just to see if the officer will show up, then you have to go to that, and might go to criminal (traffic) court later down the road.

SAME SITUATION HERE!

#5 - What type of area do you work? I'm in a metro where I work 100+ crashes a year, a lot of special assignments and I switch back and forth every week between days and evenings.

Mostly rural for my troop but we do have urban areas such as Athens, where the University of Georgia is located.

#6 - Did you work a straight midnight shift that year? One of my classmates in another part of the state had about 150 drunks last year, but they were working all midnight shift. Heck, I'm home by the time the bars close most nights! :-)

Mostly late shifts, a few midnites and just about all weekends. Many times I would stay out 2-4 hours after my shift was supposed to end. I just carried 8 hours but they frown on that now.

Just curious how you do it! The same questions go for your brother too. I assume on a DUI task force that was ALL he did that year. Man....that's a ton of drunks. I think the average number of days worked a year is about 260 by the time you take off vacation, etc, so that's still almost 2 a night. Did he get burnt out by the end of that?

My brother worked just midnights and worked in the metro Atlanta area. They typically worked in the party district. The strange thing was they only worked Monday thru Friday nights. I think you can burn out on thing if you do it long enough. You have to have a passion for something like this. At times I couldn't believe I was getting paid to do this!