Jack Oates honored at DRE Conference

Jack Oates (center of picture) was instrumental in the development of the formal DRE curriculum. In 1986, Jack, along with Bill Tower (on loan to NHTSA from the Maryland State Police) and Bill Nash of NHTSA, visited Los Angeles and monitored the LAPD DRE School. I instructed at this school. The faculty primarily consisted of LAPD officers. Jack, and the others, took notes and collected materials throughout the course. Jack refined our materials, and put them into the standard NHTSA curriculum format that is still used today.

On July 23, 2010, Jack was honored by the DRE Section of the IACP with a DRE Ambassador award. Jack is flanked by me on his right, and by Dick Studdard, the true father of DRE, on his left.