LEOs can use the new Field Sobriety Test Mat for educational efforts or for real field sobriety testing. The Field Sobriety Test Mat can be used with or without impairment goggles for officers doing demonstrations in the community, or even for training new recruits at the academy. It could also be used for real testing with impaired drivers as it would eliminate any issues with not having a “straight line” on the street or highway.
Three simple tasks—picking up change, car keys and a cell phone—can be performed, followed by the heel-to-toe walk the line test and the one-legged stand field sobriety test. For use in educational purposes, the first time the participant can be “sober” and the second time “impaired” while wearing the Drunk Busters Goggles.
“As a long time law enforcement officer myself, I could also see the mat actually being used for real field sobriety testing on the road,” says Curt Kindschuh, founder and owner of Drunk Busters of America, LLC. “Simply roll out the mat, and you have a perfectly straight line as well as “footprints” for the suspected DUI offender to put his/her shoes in for the one-legged stand test.”
