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Thomas E.
Page
Thomas E. Page, a former Officer
in Charge of the Los Angeles Police Department's
(LAPD) Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Unit, began
his law enforcement career with the Detroit
Police Department. Before undertaking a law
enforcement career, Mr. Page served the Wayne
County, Michigan Health Department for five
years as a public health worker.
Mr. Page assisted in the coordination of the
1985 Los Angeles Field Validation Test (173 case
study) of the DRE Procedure. This study
validated the effectiveness and reliability of a
standardized and systematic approach to drug
influence recognition. Mr. Page was also a
member of the initial DRE curriculum development
cadre. This cadre created the first formal DRE
course curricula.
Mr. Page has taught drug influence recognition
and criminal justice topics to a wide range of
audiences. They include: the National Judicial
College, the California District Attorneys
Association, the American Bar Association, the
New York State Bar Association, the National
Advocacy Center, Northwestern University Traffic
Institute, the Institute of Police Technology
and Management, the California Department of
Mental Health, the Swedish National Police
Federation in Stockholm, the Russian Procuracy
Training Academy in Moscow, the Victoria Police
in Melbourne, Australia, the European Academy of
Forensic Sciences in Turkey, the International
Traffic Medicine Association, the U.S.Army,
nurses, physicians, toxicologists, and private
industry.
Mr. Page frequently provides expert testimony in
court on the effects of alcohol and drugs
(including legal drugs), driving under the
influence enforcement, drugs in the workplace,
and the standardized field sobriety test,
including horizontal gaze nystagmus. He has been
accepted as an expert in courts in nineteen
states.
Mr. Page has authored numerous articles on drug
user detection techniques. His credits include
"Police Chief" Magazine, the Victoria Australia
Parliamentary Road Safety Committee Report, the
International Congress on Alcoholism and Drug
Dependence in Norway, the 2000 (Stockholm,
Sweden) and 2002 (Montreal, Canada)
International Conferences on Alcohol, Drugs, and
Traffic Safety. He co-authored the Drug
Information Handbook for Criminal Justice
Professionals, and also authored the
introductory chapter in The Medical-Legal
Aspects of Drugs published by Lawyers and Judges
Publishing Company, Marcelline Burns, editor. He
is also the co-author/editor of The
Medical-Legal Aspects of Abused Substances,
published by Lawyers and Judges Publishing
Company.
He served as the General Chairperson of the DRE
Section of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police (IACP), and is a former member
of IACP's DRE Technical Advisory Panel. The DRE
Section of the International Association of
Chiefs of Police has awarded Mr. Page the title
“Drug Recognition Expert Emeritus.” He is a
member of the National Safety Council's
Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs, and is
also a member of the International Council on
Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS).
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in
Psychology, and his Master of Arts degree in
Urban Studies from the University of Detroit. He
is a member of the University of Detroit Mercy’s
College of Liberal Arts and Education Dean’s
Advisory Board. Mr. Page holds a State of
California lifetime college teaching credential.
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