Police Trainee Driving On A Suspended License

Our Chicago Lawyers have written numerous posts regarding the double standard applied to the police versus the average citizen. Below is yet another example. This time it’s a police trainee caught driving on a suspended license.

Police Dept. Unaware Of Trainee’s Suspended License

SANFORD, Fla. — Eyewitness News discovered that a Sanford police officer trainee had a suspended driver’s license, and department officials didn’t know anything about it. It started with a phone call to the Eyewitness News newsroom on Thursday. A caller said Donald Flowers, a trainee with the Sanford Police Department, had a suspended license. When Eyewitness News reporter Blaine Tolison called department officials, he alerted them about the situation.

“It certainly was a surprise to me and it was a surprise to the supervisor,” said Sgt. Dave Morgenstern, with the Sanford Police Department. After the phone call, Flowers was pulled off of training. Applicants for the police department must have a valid driver’s license, according to the online application.

Officials say Flowers has roughly one week of training left, and he has not yet received his own patrol car. Department officials are looking into why his license is suspended.

Finding out why someone’s license is suspended takes all of 5 minutes. Of course, no punishment has been handed down to the trainee as of yet. Keep in mind that driving on a suspended / revoked driver’s license, Chicago and elsewhere, is punishable by jail times and heavy fines. Apparently that’s only if your not the police.