DUII Enforcement Agency of the Year, April 29

During the 2014 annual DUII Multi-Disciplinary Impaired Driving Training Conference held April 25 – 26 in Lincoln City, the Oregon DUII Multi-Disciplinary Training Task Force presented their annual awards of excellence to various organizations, groups, and individuals who made a significant contribution to deterring impaired driving in Oregon during 2013. A municipal, county and state police agency were selected from nominations for law enforcement agencies that have shown notable improvements in impaired driving enforcement while taking a proactive, leadership role in their communities. The Oregon State Police Office or Work Site selected must have also provided a willingness to aggressively train and encourage their officers to enforce DUII and drug-impaired driving laws with a proactive approach to deter DUII. Selected to receive the “2013 DUII Enforcement Agency-Of-The-Year” for the Oregon State Police (OSP) was the OSP Tillamook Work Site. Under the direction of Sergeant Greg Plummer, the four patrol troopers respond to calls for service and conduct enforcement contacts in a rural county with a population of less than 25,000 people spread out over 1,133 square miles. In 2012, the Tillamook Work Site sworn staff arrested 43 DUII drivers. In 2013, troopers reported 84 DUII arrests, a 95 percent increase. Two troopers assigned to this office, Trooper John King and Trooper Aaron Butcher, ranked 1st and 2nd for DUII arrests made by all law enforcement in Tillamook County.