Swerve and Protect: Hundreds of Florida officers caught driving drunk

A driver traveling on Old Kings Road in Palm Coast was concerned when they spotted a silver Nissan Titan “all over the road” in the middle of the night. They told the 911 dispatcher the driver had gone onto a curb and was now in a McDonalds parking lot.

The driver was a Daytona Beach police officer. He told deputies when they arrived to find his truck on a curb and crashed into a utility pole, that a woman had been driving the truck. That woman was nowhere to be found.

It’s cases like this that prompted 9 Investigates to start looking into law enforcement officers arrested for driving under the influence earlier this year. 9 Investigates has been digging into this for seven months and found case after case of officers getting jammed up and caught driving drunk. And the hundreds of cases we found where an officer lost their certification, or it was suspended, may not even be all of them.