11/08 :  Drunk Driving National Crackdown

  
NHTSA provides a promotional planner to provide marketing materials and ideas you can use for your anti-impaired driving promotions. see details here

This planner includes messaging and templates you may choose from to support your impaired driving initiatives surrounding the National Enforcement Crackdown. The publications available to you can be used in several capacities and are built on the new message platform Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest. These materials also carry the tagline, "Cops are cracking down," which reinforces that law enforcement officials will be on the lookout and focusing attention on impaired drivers.

Please select, tailor, and distribute this planner in a way that best fits your local situation and objectives.

30/04 :  AcuNetx’s HawkEye™ To Be Spotlighted On Evening News

   TORRANCE, CA., April 30, 2008 – AcuNetx, Inc. (OTCBB: ANTX), announced today it’s HawkEye™ eye observation and recording system employed by law enforcement to establish probable cause for detaining motorists suspectedof driving under the influence (DUI) will be the subject of a feature story on CBS 13 Television (Sacramento) to be aired tonight on the station’s 10PM newscast. It will post on their website immediately thereafter.


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08/04 :  Alaska Drug Recognition Evaluator says HawkEye is beneficial

  

Alaska Drug Evaluation and Classification (DEC) Program

IACP approved the Alaska DRE program for inclusion in the DEC program in 2004. In 2008, the program has grown to a total of 29 DREs supported by 10 agencies. Last week troopers in Ankorage conducted a school for DRE officers. They used HawkEye to train officers in drug recognition.

In 2006, Alaska DREs performed 154 enforcement evaluations with the following results:


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08/04 :  New and Improved HawkEye

   Prospects who qualify for a HawkEye field test are finding the new and improved version has extra benefits.

The portable carry case is much easier to handle. Everything fits inside the case - even the laptop. It is very easy to bring the HawkEye to a field sobriety checkpoint.

All the electronic are out of the way, underneath custom foam cut outs. You jsut open the case, plug in the power and two cords to the laptop and you are ready to go.

01/04 :  AcuNetx Files 10KSB Showing Continued Improvement & Growth

   TORRANCE, CA., March 30, 2008 – AcuNetx, Inc. (OTCBB: ANTX), announced today that it has filed its year ending December 31, 2007 10KSB. Unit sales of its products increased 35% from 2006 with overall gross profit improving from $1,608,796 in 2006 to $1,960,627 in 2007. The expenditure controls put into place in early 2007 resulted in an 89% decrease in the company’s net loss, from $8,223,391 in 2006 to $905,070 in 2007. Selling, general and administrative expenses also significantly decreased by 37%, from $4,062,300 in 2006 to $2,586,411 in 2007. Another important business metric was year‐end net accounts receivable which decreased 84% from the prior year. Read the rest ...

10/03 :  RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL DUI TASK FORCE

   Recently, the DUI Task Force from Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital held a training class for law enforcement officers and supervisors.

They demonstrated HawkEye™ during the class to show how eye signs can reveal drunk and drugged impaired drivers in Cayuga County.

Chrystal Gullett is the contact person at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital. They used HawkEye™ to record drinker volunteers at the class as their consumption increased.  Replaying these videos helped students understand the eye signs. Read the rest ...

04/03 :  DRE EVALUATION LEADS TO MAJOR DRUG CASE

  

DREs can have a major impact on drug investigations and drug seizures.

The following is an excellent example of an Oregon case where a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) conducted a drug-impaired driving evaluation that turned into a very successful drug investigation.

On August 5, 1999, a City Police Officer stopped a driver who was driving the wrong way on a one-way street. The officer determined that the driver was impaired and arrested the 21-year-old male driver for DUI. The suspect was given a breath test, which resulted a .01% BAC. The degree of impairment noted by the arresting officer did not correspond with the breath test results, so he requested a local DRE to conduct a drug evaluation on the suspect. Senior Trooper Tim Plummer, an Oregon State Police DRE, responded and determined that the suspect was under the influence of cannabis (marijuana) and a hallucinogen.

After the arrest, the arresting officer located a small baggy of suspected psilocybin mushrooms in the car. Read the rest ...

10/02 :  TROOPER ENCOUNTERS DRIVER IMPAIRED ON SALVIA

  

These facts are from a DWI arrest in July 2006.

Officers who are trained to recognize drug impairment are better able to deal with drugged drivers before a scene like this happens.

"I responded to a one vehicle crash at ... I noticed empty beer cans throughout the vehicle. The occupants of the vehicle were carefree and none of them really knew what had happened. The vehicle hit 3 retaining walls in the construction zone.

"I spoke with the 19 year old driver. He denied drinking any alcohol. He was very excited, talkative and carefree. His speech was rapid. His pupils were dilated. His BAC was .077. The subject stated that he wasn’t drunk.

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30/01 :  Users Report Potentially Serious Cannabis-Related Problems

  
Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) reports that nearly one in ten first-year college students at a mid-Atlantic university have a cannabis use disorder. Even in the absence of a disorder, users appear to be at risk for potentially serious cannabis-related problems. Students who had used cannabis five or more times in the past year reported problems related to their cannabis use, such as concentration problems (40.1%), regularly putting themselves in physical danger (24.3%), and driving after using marijuana (18.6%; see figure below).

The HawkEye™ System can help keep these impaired drivers off the road. Drivers who are impaired with Canabis alone will not exhibit HGN (nor VNG) but will likely show LACK of CONVERGENCE and DILATED pupil size. They will also have high pulse and blood pressure. These signs cannot be suppressed by practising. Show video from HawkEye™ taken at the SFST to a DRE to assess whether a driver with these eye signs is impaired.

For details on the study, including data charts, source information and caveats, download the PDF.

25/01 :  Mandatory Jail Time for DUI

  

Arizona and every other state has DUI laws that are meant to stop drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel of a car. The limit in AZ, sometimes ironically called the "legal limit," is .08%. The best advice is "don't drink and drive".


Ciry of Phoenix PD has ordered HawkEye™ to their DUI Enforcement Arsenal. Read the rest ...