I'm coming southbound. She's coming northbound. Inside lanes both times. I don't know where we cross. Okay. You're going south. She's going north. She's going north. Inside lanes on both equal lengths traffic. Okay. An offduty officer named James found himself on the wrong side of the law after being involved in a vehicle collision while heading southbound as the other driver was northbound in the inside lane. The officer on scene immediately began assessing the situation and requested James full cooperation. Under Illinois Vehicle Code 625511-501, it is unlawful for any person to drive or be in actual physical control of any vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. James admitted he had consumed alcohol 2 hours prior and mentioned he had eaten food, including chicken dumplings and a sandwich, around the same time. He claimed to be feeling fine and showed willingness to perform field sobriety tests, including walking a straight line and a 30-cond time estimation with his eyes closed. Despite his cooperation and acknowledgement that he and the officer go way back, the investigation moved forward like any other DUI stop. Okay. How you feeling? I'm feeling okay. He's in the car. You got a weapon there or anything? No. Off duty. I got not carrying. Okay. Service weapons and in my uh holster at home. Okay. All right. Stay here. Okay. All right. I'm looking for is honesty. Okay. I know. I know you're a tough dickman right now. It's like that. Okay. I'm looking for is honesty, compliance, and that's all I'm asking for. Okay. When was the last time you drink? A little bit earlier. Okay. How long ago was that? Couple hours. About two. Two hours ago. Okay. What are you drinking? I had about a day. Have you ate it all today? Yes, I have sandwich. Cam sandwich. When was last time you ate? About 2 and 1/2 hours ago. They had food over there and they had uh food which was also as well a uh chicken sandwich as well as chicken dumplings. Okay. Uh how much did you sleep today? Roughly today about 6 hours. Okay. Okay. What where exactly where you calling from? Roughly around Greenwood Acres. Greenwood Acres. Rob Sumo. Okay. Where you heading to? Where was your destination? Uh off of Best Avenue. Okay. It's right down there. Yeah. Okay. All right. Listen, man. Listen, I I can tell you drinking. I'm just being honest with you. I I know me and you go way back, but we're here right now. Okay. You got that? Okay. All right. Listen. How much how much an influence do you feel like now? I'm fine. You're fine? Yes. Okay. You still feel like there's alcohol in your system? No. No. Okay. All right, James. We have to do a couple things here, right? Okay. All right. Can I Can I check you out? Go ahead. Okay. You still feeling good? All right. You have problems. I have femoralities. Other than the knee surgery, ACL reconstruction 2016. Okay. Right. Okay. How can you walk right now? I can perform test. Okay. All right. So, anything else in general has any knee surgery 2016? Okay. You have any contacts in right now? No. Yeah, we can. Okay. Put your feet together, hands to your sides. Okay. Wait a few times. Keep still feeling good. All right, man. No, no, no. There are just physical problems besides that knee. Besides the right knee. Okay. All right. Imaginary line right here. Okay. All right. What I want you to place your left foot on the line. Okay. Maintain this position until I've completed the instructions. Do not start to walk until you tell you to do so. Do you understand? I see. You understand? I saw. Okay. Can you get back in that starting position, please? Do you feel more comfortable on that sidewalk, James? I do. Okay, let's go on the sidewalk then. You feel all the cracks? I get you. I'm giving you a fair shot. Okay, let's go back here. We're away from any cracks. Get that thing. James, go back here. Start here. All right. Get back in that starting position. Right foot. Head of left foot. Okay. Arms at your sides. Not yet. Just hang out there. Okay. Go ahead and begin 1,000 pace. This This is how I stretched it. Okay. [Music] Heat. Heat. Okay. You still feeling all right, man? Okay. Go ahead and begin, James. 2001 20002 1003 2004 1005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2012 2013 2014 2015 16 2017 22 23 24 256 62 27 28 129. Go ahead, hang out. You can stop. Okay. You know where James, can you tell me where you're at right now? Right now I'm at 7th and I'm on 7th Street right at Charter. Okay. What was the make the vehicle you're driving? GMC Sierra 2013 1500. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. What I want you to do, stand with your feet together and arms at your sides. Okay. When I tell you to tilt your head back slightly and close your eyes until you think 30 seconds has passed. Do you understand? Can you reiterate one more time? Yep. I'll read it for you again. Okay. Stand with your feet together and place your arm to your sides. Okay. Okay. When I tell you to tilt your head back slightly and close your eyes until you think 30 seconds has passed. Okay. Do you understand? Okay. When you think 30 seconds has passed, tilt your head forward. Open your eyes and say stop. Do you understand? Can you tilt your head back? Close your eyes and wait for me to tell you to start. Okay. Begin. Okay. How much time was that, James? 35. 35. Okay. How'd you reach that time? My head counted at 11 1,000 pace. Okay. All right. Stand with your feet together and onto your sides. Okay. Do not do anything else until I tell you to. You understand? Yes. Okay. Follow my stimulus which will be the tip of my pen again. Okay. With your eyes and eyes only. Do not move your head. Do you understand? Just relax. You can come over if he needs to. He can He can go talk to him. He He can talk to him if he needs to. Okay. Position. Yeah. Just chill out. Chill out. Fire. Fire is going to talk to you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Where does he work? He's outside of the city off. I'm trying to get it from the squad car right now. He's going to have to provide one either way. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He did the thing that he's on duty. Somebody know he for you guys. I I I took a back out of my car. Where's your 318? It's over there. There he is. Got you. That's all. Uh we know who he is. [Music] He say on the car. As the process continued, James complied with further sobriety testing and confirmed he wasn't armed. Officers maintained professionalism, stating they weren't looking for favoritism. Under Illinois compiled statutes 625,511501.1. Refusal to submit to testing or failing such tests results in statutory summary suspension of driving privileges. James agreed to the breath test and later consented to a blood test when transferred to the medical facility. Officers made it clear that he would be treated like anyone else, reminding him that the law doesn't change based on profession. All right, James, listen. We still have some forester after this, but are you going to provide a breath sample right now? Yeah, without you you don't got to get on anything. Check real quick. Okay. All right. I got to do what I got. I got I got to do what I got to do now. Okay. You understand? Is that is one too tight? Ladies and gentlemen, someone out wasn't 5 to KCH. Can you let them know? Not sure. They got a helicopter. We'll figure it out. Can you shut off my uh dash cam, please? Can I walk through? Okay. I I know. I know. I know. I know. You got to do what you got. Okay. You got to read the warning more. I got it. Yeah. I got it. Was it concerning? But I got to I'm just going to do the normal process. It's okay. Can you ask them if they got a room or anything? Dispatch should have called. Ask me for a second. Just I'm not I'm not I know how the process goes. Like just [Applause] vis what's her name? I'm not very much. Okay. I'm not sorry asking the criminal aspect, but uh you do both. So we only do we only do blood here. I'll do blood. You won't do blood. All right. You can come to triage. Can I walk through? I'm not I'm not I'm not I feel and to give the integrity in this um obviously my wallet, my student badges in there. I need you to um go in here. Yeah, we're going here. I need you to contact my department. That's going to be it. That's going to be on your hand. You want to find the best? I'm not going to be I got to do like like procedures. Procedure. Go ahead and save the first part. I'm not going to um I will submit this part. All right. you're subsequent to an arrest for driving while on the influence of alcohol or other drugs and intoxicating compounds or any combination there of DUI and community protection act and if I first offender your driving privileges will be suspended for a minimum of 6 months or if you're not a first offender your driving privileges will be spending for a minimum of one year you have CDL dreams no or school bus driver all do what you got to do if you guys got something to say that's not going to policy. Just let it out now. Hey, I know what you do. You got nothing to say. I'll be in the back lot anything. Um, I don't think so. Sorry. Go down here. Okay. Just the patient signature and then my signature. That's it. All right. And then you have to open that up. This is your bed. Sorry. No problem. Got it. Thank you. Um, actually I All right. It's a lot of process. Sorry. No problem. You okay with this arm? Little tight. Heat up here. [Music] What's going [Music] Please come back with [Music] me with you been a little while. Okay. What's up, man? What's going on? Something or what? [Music] What's going on with the case? Okay. So, right now, so D1 or DUI A2, they have DUI for the for the injuries. Okay. And then two are the traffic citations. How are the injuries? They're there be still in medical care. Okay. Nothing life-threatening. It's a serious serious medical injury. So, I'm going to say, "Okay." All right. So, this this is detainable. Okay. So, so I'm being straight. You're going to be in there till Monday. Okay. I'm Listen, you're not a bad guy. Okay? Everyone here, no one in here thinks you're a bad guy, okay? I'll call the jail. Let them know who you are and and what's going on. Okay? But that's a that's that's where we're at. Okay? Anything else, man? Um, all right. I know, man. Listen, like I said, I'm I'm treating like everybody else that everybody else want to be treated any different. So, like I'm saying, it's this how the statute reads permanent bodily injury, great bodily harm. Okay? Just how the statute reads. Charges were filed, including two counts of DUI and two traffic citations with the added seriousness of medical injuries to the other party. With great bodily harm suspected, the statute made the case detainable, meaning James would remain in custody through the weekend. Despite the emotional toll, James accepted the process, recognizing that even as a police officer, accountability still applies. Like and subscribe for more police cam stories. Watch the next recommended video. Click to watch now.