I'm APD officer Marissa Martinez. My
rank is patrolman first class. I'm with
the DWI unit. Tonight the cadets are
working with um people who had actually
volunteered their services to the
Albuquerque Police Department. Um they
come in and we we dose them to certain
levels. There are a few people in there
who have not been drinking at all. Um
and the cadets will come out from the
classroom and into the into the
gymnasium where we have this all set up
and conduct field sobriety tests. and
the other instructors are just going to
stand by and make sure that they have
interpreted how to do field sobriety
tests and that they administer them
properly.
Uh cadets um at some point um upon
completion of the academy will go on a
ride along with a DWI unit. They'll be
assigned to a DWI officer and go either
on a ride along or they'll attend a
checkpoint and um be able to also
practice some of the skills they learned
today in the classroom. Cadets are
taught how to take notes, um, fill out a
proper report, all the traffic citations
that are included, and the full, um,
book and arresting um, procedure as far
as booking someone for a DWI.