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Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST)

Description:
This is a one-day school for officers that need to enhance their field sobriety skills. The curriculum comes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The course offers training on proper ways to conduct field sobriety testing and signs to look for with impaired drivers. This training will be taught out of the current updated NHTSA manuals. This course will not have drinking workshops.

Emphasis is placed on becoming familiar with the horizontal gaze nystagmus testing procedure.

Level of intoxication can be determined by becoming proficient in this technique.

Pre-Requisites: None

Restrictions: Must be a law enforcement officer

Student Notes:
This class is limited to 24 students

To apply for the course, candidates should have Agency Administrator or Training Coordinator register them for the training through the POST Acadis Portal.

If you do not have a POST Portal Account- please send an email with your full name and agency to: support@utahpost.org

Course Dates Location Time Status
TBA  TBA  Pending

Note: Many POST in-service classes are scheduled according to demand. If you would like to attend a class, but no dates are scheduled, please send us a message at: support@utahpost.org