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Show Police seminar provides new information on intoxication To help local police officers keep abreast of the new laws, new trends or information relative rel-ative to their department, one-day one-day seminars are held frequently frequent-ly in the area. One of these seminars was held Monday of this week to which six officers of the Springville Police Department De-partment attended. Conducted in Provo at the Provo Police Club House, the officers heard County Attorney Attor-ney Dayle Jeffs, Sgt. Mike Gale of the Highway Patrol and Dr. Swenson of the BYU discuss the new laws recently passed by the state legislature and which have now gone into effect. Of particular inuportance was the discussion and explanation regarding the reduction of blood alcohol level for conclusive intoxication in-toxication of drunk drivers from .15 to .08. The new law, it was pointed out, grants officers of-ficers the right to specify which test is used, the blood test which may be drawn from tne onenuer Dy a aoctor or blood technician, and which grants eithe'r the civil immunity immuni-ty for pei-forming this task, the urine test performed by an officer of-ficer or the breatholizer test which may be performed also by an officer of the law. The new law also states, where an accident has occured, that the officer is permitted to arrest an intixicated driver f or drunk driving even though the officer may not actually have seen him drive if there is reason rea-son to believe the drunk was driving. Previously the officer could not arrest the intoxicated intoxicat-ed driver, Chief Ashley Graham pointed out. Conducting the seminar was Dan Barton of the local police force who is presently serving as president of the Central Peace Officers Association. Attending the seminar on their own time and expense from Springville while off duty were C hief Ashley Graham, Newell Rigtrup, Dan Barton, Dee Kelsey, Norman Cole and Sgt. JD Dalton. |