Dear Editor:
Re: West Vancouver Cop Sent Home with Boozy Breath, Aug. 12 front-page story.
I am still quite unable to grasp the implications of this bizarre story.
How did this officer, having been forced to take a breathalyzer test — a test he or she promptly failed — ever get his/her private vehicle out of the parking lot at the West Vancouver police station? Other members knew this officer was drunk on the job, yet no directive was dispatched to working police officers to immediately apprehend the officer’s car.
To this reader, it appears as if this officer was permitted to drive his/her personal car after failing a legal test for impaired driving. If this officer were a private citizen, he or she never would have made it home (and instead) would have been immediately apprehended and arrested on the streets of West Vancouver.
Why is this person still a police officer? Clearly, this is a case where an officer was given a minor reprimand for an offence that would cost the rest of us a licence suspension and a substantive fine, if not jail time.
It is difficult to believe “Officer Boozy Breath” is still a serving member of Canada’s most expensive private police force.
Max Rundle Wilkie
Kelowna
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