Posted on 05/10/2007 4:42:53 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Deputy, firefighter had own set of rules Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:52 AM
I respond to the May 3 Dispatch article "Deputy fired for not taking firefighter's keys." I must have missed something. I always thought that when you are stopped for drinking and driving that you go to jail.
If Muskingum County deputy sheriff Phillip Michel had done his job and taken the firefighter to jail, the firefighter would still be here today. I guess that people such as firefighters, judges and police have their own set of laws that they abide by, which is a lot different from the laws that common folk have to live by.
I doubt that we will ever know just how drunk the firefighter was.
Get ready, Columbus, here comes another lawsuit that we are going to have to pay.
REX MASON
Columbus
Sorry for double post.
Sometimes keys get lost or locked in a trunk I've been told. And I always leave them with a sober adult.
The problem with DUIs around here is they take you off the street for 3 hours because the defense attorneys have caused an incredible amount of paperwork to be done to prove DUI.
That being said, if someone has a history of DUI ect. They get screwed.
As far as I know, I'm not aware of any mandatory arrest for your garden variety DUI since it is a misdemeanor. When I worked nights I'd arrest every DUI I came across. They are very time consuming and unless you're primary function is DUI enforcement, the rest of the squad has to pick up the slack on the call load when working on a DUI arrest. Over the years I let some go but no way were they going to drive. I've never arrested or stopped a public official, not for DUI anyway, but I've several co-workers who were arrested by fellow police officers for DUI. It happens.
The one car versus tree/ porch/light pole/submerged etc... collision dispatches were always a good sign of a long night..LOL
The courtesy is understandable. But letting him drive if he was drunk isn’t.
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