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Should State Highway Patrol troopers be able to hold second jobs teaching driving classes? Is it a conflict of interest? Or is the new regulation just another unnecessary and unfair restriction on good employees putting their lives at risk protecting us?
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Who better to teach the classes? As long as they can ensure they did not write a ticket to any of their students they should be allowed to teach. I don't think the Highway Patrol should have the right to deny these guys a chance for secondary employment...it is completely unfair and unjust.
Posted on November 29, 2007 8:53 AM
If the 3 troopers provide a way to show that they are not teaching students they have personally written tickets to(easy enough, student must provide a copy of their ticket showing the issuing agency) then the highway patrol should have no concern and it's not a conflict of interest. What about troopers who teach the driving class at GTCC, what procedures do they follow to make sure that they are not teaching someone they wrote a ticket to...why only single out these 3 troopers?
Posted on November 29, 2007 9:55 AM
The reason these 3 troopers are being singled out is because they are ticket happy troopers that will give you a ticket and then when you go to court, they will drop the charge if you go to driving school and then you are told to go to Triad Driving Improvement, and what happens you walk into class and the same trooper that gave you the ticket is teaching you better driving improvements. This is just plain and simple racketeering. What a better way to make money. 8 hours @ $150.00. Not Bad.
Right Key!
Posted on November 29, 2007 10:05 AM
hey doesn't matter....keep in mind the troopers don't recommend anyone for schools that is up to the court system...and if you hadn't broken the law you wouldn't have been recommended to take the class now would you? Keep that in mind
Posted on November 29, 2007 10:29 AM
hey doesn't matter....keep in mind the troopers don't recommend anyone for schools that is up to the court system...and if you hadn't broken the law you wouldn't have been recommended to take the class now would you? Keep that in mind
Posted on November 29, 2007 10:29 AM
hey doesn't matter....keep in mind the troopers don't recommend anyone for schools that is up to the court system...and if you hadn't broken the law you wouldn't have been recommended to take the class now would you? Keep that in mind
Posted on November 29, 2007 10:30 AM
no name is right, these troopers or any of the troopers have no say so in what happens to these offenders or their tickets in the court system, their only job is to enforce the law. If I owned a driving a school I would most definitely want some type of law enforcement officer being the one teaching the class.
Posted on November 29, 2007 11:31 AM
I have friends that have gone to triad driving school and they said they enjoyed the class. They also went to another school and was bored to death and it cost more. Who better to teach the class than law enforcement officers they see it all. If you don" break the law you wouldn' t have to go to school.
Posted on November 30, 2007 6:24 AM