Episode 923: Understanding DUI Investigations and Convictions with Zak Schlader

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

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4.9 • 967 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Dennis sits down with DUI Investigations and Convictions instructor, Zak Schlader. Zak Schlader is a Law Enforcement Officer in the state of Nevada and has been an officer since the beginning of 2017. Zak has a strong focus on traffic enforcement and DUI investigations where he has earned recognition and has since been given several different awards. With over 300 DUI’s since the beginning of his career to present day, one award Zak was awarded was the Hero & Handcuffs award from the STOP-DUI program. With almost 7 years on the force, Zak is currently serving as a field training officer, a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE), and as a Lead SFST instructor. With this knowledge and training, Zak spends a large amount of his time teaching and helping all different departments throughout the state. Zak’s career also includes specialty in peer support, NIK Instructor (departments drug identification system), Lead Instructor for his departments Electronics Search Warrant Program, and traffic assignments. Today Dennis and Zak discuss Zak’s start to his career in law enforcement, what has class is all about, memorable DUI investigations and why they’re so important, the impact and the lives saved when stopping DUIs, where the profession is falling short in convictions and how important caselaw is tied to DUI arrests. Check out Zak's upcoming classes here: ⁠https://www.streetcoptraining.com/instructor/zakery-schlader/ If you like what you are hearing and want to stay in the loop with the latest in Street Cop Training, please follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StreetCopTraining Check out Street Cop University here: ⁠⁠https://www.streetcoptraining.com/university/⁠ Don't forget to subscribe and rate the podcast, it truly helps! Sign up for classes here: https://streetcoptraining.com/course-list/Follow our podcast here: https://streetcoptraining.com/street-cop-podcast/ or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/street-cop-podcast/id1538474515

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0:00.0	Those are the hard ones. I mean, I've had other investigations that are more just like you stop the car and they're obviously hammered and there's no
0:09.9	Real struggle of am I gonna be able to prove that this person's impaired because it's like you walk up and he's slurring his words and you can't even and then you know you open the door and the bottle of beers fall out of the car as he's getting out of the car and you're like oh well
0:24.8	all right this guy's drunk like let's just go to the jail.
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1:13.0	Hey guys, welcome this episode of the street cop training podcast,
1:16.0	me you're as founder and CEO of street cop training.
1:18.0	My name is Dennis Benito and we have with us one of our newer instructors.
1:21.0	And I'll let him give his bio in a second, but I appreciate you being here today.
1:26.6	Came old away from downtown gorgeous Las Vegas.
1:29.5	We met almost two years ago now when he hosted our training in the metropolitan area and you don't have to say what agency you're from probably the best bet
1:37.6	That's course of action so tell everybody who you are and some of your bio where where you grew up, how you end up in Vegas?
1:44.0	So basically I started in, well I grew up in Alaska actually,
1:50.8	I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, And then my family said, hey, we're moving to Vegas, and I was 15 at the time,
1:57.0	so there wasn't really much of a choice in the matter,
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