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SOCE part 2 Exam with correct AnswersThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Answers -The DWI Detection and
Standardized Field Sobriety Test Guide was produced by
The NHTSA courses - Answers -Uses the term driving while intoxicated or impaired
(DWI).
Florida Law - Answers -Uses the term driving under the influence (DUI).
Traffic crashes - Answers -Each year, tens of thousands of people die in
Impaired driving - Answers -Is a major contributor to traffic fatalities
25 percent of America's drivers - Answers -Occasionally driver while under the influence
80 times per year - Answers -Offenders actually commit DUIs an average of
Impaired drivers are more likely than other drivers to take excessive risks and have
slowed reaction times, they are also less likely to wear seat belts. - Answers -While
driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs,
Remove impaired drivers from the road to ensure public safety - Answers -An officer's
primary duty in detecting and investigation DUI cases is to
DUI - Answers -Is both a societal and a law enforcement problem.
The ultimate goal - Answers -Is to reduce the number of impaired drivers through
prevention, education, and deterrence.
Prevention - Answers -Promises the ultimate, lasting solution to the DUI problem, but it
will require a substantial amount of time to fully accomplish.
Education - Answers -Is an essential component of the solution. Law enforcement must
no only enforce the DUI laws but take the time to educate the public through schools,
civic groups, special events, etc.
Deterrence - Answers -Is only part of the solution. Both the public and the law
enforcement are responsible for working together to accomplish the goal of stopping
DUIs
,Alcohol - Answers -Falls into the drug category of Central Nervous System Depressant
and is the most abused drug in the United States. Is the active ingredient in beer, wine,
whiskey, liquors, etc. Its effect on the boy includes the loss of fine motor skills, hand/eye
coordination, and judgement. Often the person who is affected doesn't think that he or
she is impaired.
Absorption - Answers -Is the process by which alcohol enters the blood stream. The
rate of alcohol varies based on many factors, including the person's weight and gender,
whether and how much food he or she has eaten, and the alcohol concentration of the
substances consumed.
Distribution - Answers -Is the process by which alcohol is carried via the bloodstream to
the body's tissues and organs.
Metabolism - Answers -Is the biological process by which the body breaks alcohol down
into compounds that are more readily eliminated.
Elimination - Answers -Is when the body expels alcohol through exhaled breath, sweat,
tears, saliva, urine, etc. The average alcohol elimination rate of humans is .015 grams
of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood per hour.
Drive to some degree - Answers -Any amount of alcohol will affect a person's ability to
The degree to which a person is affected - Answers -How much alcohol is consumed,
the length of time over which the alcohol is consumed, the gender and physical size of
the person, whether or not the person has eaten, and various other factors.
Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) or breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) - Answers -
Limit at which an individual is presumed impaired and cannot legally operate a vehicle.
s. 316.193, F.S., - Answers -Establishes the limit as 0.08 BAC.
BAC - Answers -is expressed in terms of grams of alcohol in every 100 milliliters of
blood.
BrAC - Answers -Is expressed as grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath.
A level of 0.08 - Answers -May refer to the blood alcohol level (BAC) or the breath
alcohol (BrAC) level.
Driving under the influence (DUI) - Answers -Refers to a person who is driving, who has
driven, or who is in actual physical control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or
certain substances that adversely affect the auditory, visual, or mental processes.
Actual physical control - Answers -A person may be in _____________ of a vehicle
even though he or she is not actually driving. A person who is physically in, on, or
,around the vehicle and has the capability to operate the vehicle is legally in
________________ of the vehicle and can be arrested and prosecuted for DUI.
Vehicle - Answers -s. 316.003(75), F.S., "Every device, in, upon, or by which any
person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting
devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks." Florida's Third District Court of
Appeal held that the term includes bicycles, and a person biking while under the
influence of alcohol could be charged with a DUI.
Within the state - Answers -Includes anywhere in Florida, whether on roadways or
public or private property. A person may be arrested for DUI even though he or she
never drove onto a road or highway.
Normal faculties - Answers -Include the ability to see, hear, walk, talk, judge distances,
drive an automobile, make judgements, act in emergencies, and normally perform the
mental and physical acts of daily life.
Agency policies and procedures and local case law when determining when and under
what circumstances Miranda warnings are administered to DUI subjects - Answers -An
officer should always rely on
Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs) - Answers -Are a series of standardized
validated psychophysical tests given by law enforcement to determine chemical
impairment.
Psychophysical tests - Answers -Describe filed sobriety tests that measure a person's
ability to perform both mental and physical tasks simultaneously.
s. 316.1932(1)(a)1.a., F.S., - Answers -Any person who accepts the privilege of driving
in Florida has consented to submit to any approved chemical or physical test to
determine the alcohol content or the presence of a chemical and/or controlled
substance in their breath, blood, or urine once they are lawfully arrested for committing
an offense while driving or in actual physical control of a vehicle and under the
influence.
Implied consent - Answers -Florida law requires a lawfully arrested driver of a vehicle to
take any breath, blood, or urine test requested by a law enforcement officer.
The implied consent warning - Answers -Can be read by a law enforcement officer,
corrections officer, or certified breath test operator, but it recommended that a law
enforcement officer read it to the subject if he or she refuses a request to submit as per
agency policy and procedures.
s. 316. 193, F.S., - Answers -Establishes legal presumptions based on the violator's
blood or breath alcohol concentration or level.
, s. 316.1934, F.S., - Answers -Establishes that even if evidence finds that the operator,
while driving or in actual physical control, had a blood or breath alcohol level in excess
of .05 but less than .08, that fact does not necessarily mean that the operator was not
under the influence of alcohol or was to the extent that his or her normal faculties were
impaired.
The jury is instructed to presume that the person as under the influence of alcohol to the
extent that his or her normal faculties were impaired. - Answers -If the person's alcohol
concentration was 0.08 or higher,
A certified Breath Test Operator - Answers -Will administer the breath test to an
arrested driver per agency policy.
The officer needs to complete a DUI Citation - Answers -If the results of the breath test
indicate an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher,
Citation - Answers -Officers must write the breath test results on the
The officer should complete a Uniform Traffic Citation for the charge of DUI based on
the probable cause for the arrest - Answers -If the result of the breath test is below a
0.08,
An officer should complete a DUI Citation and mark the box "Refusal" - Answers -If the
subject refuses to submit to the breath test,
The officer should request a urine test - Answers -If a breath test result is below a 0.08
and an officer has probable cause to believe that the subject is impaired by substances
other than alcohol,
The urine test - Answers -May determine if drugs are in the subject's system and are
possibly causing the impairment.
Request for the subject to submit a urine test and be given the Implied Consent
Warning if the test is refused. - Answers -In a urine test situation,
The urine sample - Answers -Will be collected according to agency policies and
procedures.
Urine results pending - Answers -The officer should write ______________ in the
Comments section on the issued Uniform Traffic Citation.
Requesting blood based on criteria per s. 316.1932(1)(c), F.S., and agency policy -
Answers -There is reasonable cause to believe the individual was under the influence of
alcohol or a chemical or controlled substance while driving or in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
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