The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) funds Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) training. All supplies needed for the course are provided by ICJI. There is no cost for this training.

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ARIDE Course Prerequisite: Participants must have successfully completed the basic 24 hour SFST course (source: IACP ARIDE Instructor Manual: Administrator Guide).

(All times are Eastern Time Zone unless specified)

Delaware County Sheriff's Office, 3100 S Tillotson Avenue, Muncie, January 30-31, 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) program was developed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) with input from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), and the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police. ARIDE was created to address the gap in training between the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) and the Drug Evaluation and Classification (DEC/DRE) Program.

For whom is the training intended?

This course is designed for law enforcement officers who meet the NHTSA/IACP SFST Program Standards, including a proficiency test, and who have successfully completed a NHTSA/IACP approved SFST training course. The officer must be able to administer and interpret the HGN test. The participant should be fully conversant with the procedural "mechanics" of HGN with the three clues of HGN and with the interpretation of those clues for assessing alcohol impairment. A major focus of this course is on the examination of a drug-impaired subject's eyes. The procedures for those eye examinations derive largely from HGN procedures.

Participants should be persons employed and under the direct control of public criminal justice agencies or institutions involved in providing training services to law enforcement agencies and/or prosecutors responsible for the detection, arrest, and prosecution of DWI drivers. Prosecutors and toxicologists may audit the course.

What will ARIDE attendees learn?

ARIDE provides officers with general knowledge related to drug impairment and by promoting the use of DREs in states that have the DEC Program. One of the more significant aspects of ARIDE is the required student demonstration of the SFST proficiency requirement. The ARIDE program stresses the importance of the signs and symptoms of the seven drug categories. This course will train law enforcement officers to observe, identify and articulate the signs of impairment related to drugs, alcohol, or a combination of both, in order to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes which result in serious injuries and fatalities. This course will educate other criminal justice professionals (prosecutors, toxicologists, judges, etc.) to understand the signs of impairment related to drugs, alcohol, or a combination of both, to enable them to effectively work with law enforcement in order to reduce the number of impaired driving incidents as well as crashes which result in serious injuries and fatalities.

The SFST program trains officers to identify and assess drivers suspected of being under the influence of alcohol, while the DEC/DRE program provides more advanced training to evaluate suspected drug impairment. The SFST assessment is typically employed at roadside, while an officer trained as a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) through the DEC program conducts a 12-step evaluation in a more controlled environment such as a jail or a detention facility.

ARIDE is a 16-hour training course and is taught by DRE instructors. The following summarizes the sessions contained in the ARIDE course:

Introduction and Overview of Drugs and Highway Safety
SFST Update, Review and Proficiency Examination
Observations of Eyes and other Sobriety Tests to Detect Alcohol and Drug Impairment
Seven Drug Categories
Effects of Drug Combinations
Pre-Arrest and Post-Arrest Procedures

The training will be conducted under the administration and approval of the DEC/DRE program State Coordinator.

The ARIDE course can be used as an SFST update. This course is designed to build on the Standardized Field Sobriety Test practitioner course. In order for the participant to effectively utilize the information presented in this course, NHTSA has set a prerequisite of SFST proficiency. The participant will receive a short review and update. All participants are required to pass an SFST proficiency evaluation. Failure to successfully complete the SFST proficiency evaluation will result in dismissal from class.

The ARIDE Course includes training on the Indiana Roadside Oral Fluid Program. The program was created by ICJI's Traffic Safety Division to prevent crashes and save lives. Since the program's launch in December of 2020, the division has provided more than 50 Indiana law enforcement agencies with a new roadside tool to identify and keep drug-impaired drivers off the road. The device, the SoToxa Mobile Test System, is a handheld analyzer that uses an oral fluid swab to detect the presence of six kinds of drugs: cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, cannabis (THC), amphetamine and benzodiazepines. Currently, there are about 220 devices in use in Indiana. The course will train attendees on the use of the SoToxa unit. All participants will complete the SoToxa quiz.

ARIDE: Delaware County, January 30-31, 2025