Law enforcement Officers there are drinking alcoholic drinks as a part of their training for how to give field sobriety tests.  The most common types of Field Sobriety Tests are the so-called “standardized” tests.  These include the one legged stand, walking heel to toe, and an eye examination called the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test.

Supposedly, the officers are supposed to drink until they have “slurred speech, glassy eyes, and a lack of coordination.” 

Maybe this is the type of training that enables some Officers to describe my Washington DUI clients in their reports in a manner which I can’t see when reviewing many of the dashboard video tapes that are provided to us through discovery.