Moms Towards Drunk Driving (MADD) New York, STOP–DWI and The Governor’s Visitors
Security Committee hosted their Annual Regulation Enforcement Recognition Occasion on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 on the
Crowne Plaza – The Desmond Lodge in Albany, NY. This occasion served as a possibility to acknowledge and honor the
nice work of Regulation Enforcement professionals and their Regulation Enforcement businesses from New York who’ve
proven excellent dedication to DWI enforcement, prosecution, and schooling in 2021. Over 100 awards had been
distributed and over 250 people had been in attendance to acknowledge and thank those that are working so arduous to
hold our streets secure from the horrors of drunk and drugged driving.
A number of Lifetime Achievement Awards had been distributed, in addition to the primary ever Maureen McCormick Chief of
Excellence Award. These awards acknowledge the contribution for the lifetime dedication to maintaining the roads of
New York secure and for shielding our communities from the 100% preventable crimes of impaired driving.
The primary ever Maureen McCormick Chief of Excellence Award was introduced to Maureen McCormick who
all through her profession has been a pacesetter within the combat in opposition to impaired driving in New York State. Ms. McCormick
was a member of the Nassau County District Lawyer Workplace below Kathleen Rice, Madeline Singas and Joyce
Smith. Maureen was lastly an Government Assistant District Lawyer for Main Circumstances, Intergovernmental and
Neighborhood Relations. In 2006 Ms. McCormick based the Vehicular Crimes Bureau in Nassau County after
spending virtually 20 years within the Kings County District Lawyer’s Workplace the place she started her profession. She is educated
in Collision Reconstruction, Standardized Area Sobriety Testing and Crash Knowledge Retrieval. Ms. McCormick created
the award-winning “Decisions and Penalties” Program which has educated greater than 250,000 highschool
college students about drunk, drugged, and reckless driving. She lectures to varied regulation enforcement businesses,
prosecutors, and hospital associations. She is a member of a number of visitors security and legislative committees and is
additionally a contributing writer of the New York State DWI Trial Guide and the Vehicular Murder Guide.
All through her profession, Ms. McCormick continued to strive excessive profile vehicular crimes circumstances. She efficiently
argued two DWI wicked homicide circumstances earlier than the Court docket of Appeals. She is a member of the New York State
Impaired Driving Advisory Council and helped draft statewide laws and regulatory adjustments together with the
Aggravated Vehicular Murder and Assault statutes, Leandra’s Regulation, Jack Shea’s Regulation and the Nassau County Social
Host regulation. Ms. McCormick is the recipient of a number of awards together with a MADD Lifetime Achievement award, the
William T. Smith Award for Laws, the NHTSA Public Service Award, the Nationwide Visitors Security Award for
Prosecutors and New York State Prosecutor of the Yr. Ms. McCormick is presently the Particular Assistant for
Legislative Initiatives at Suffolk County DA.
Lifetime Achievement Recipients
Sergeant Patrick Detwiler – Suffolk County Police Division
Sergeant Detwiler started his regulation enforcement profession over forty years in the past and has been dedicated to maintaining the
roadways of New York State secure from impaired drivers ever since. His efforts started in 1982 as an NYPD Freeway
Patrol officer patrolling the highways of New York Metropolis and culminated along with his project because the Commanding
Officer of the SCPD Freeway Patrol Selective Alcohol Fatality Enforcement (SAFE) Group in 2011, a place he has
held for the previous eleven years. The Protected Group is a full time DWI/DWAI enforcement unit comprised of 9 police
officers assigned to focused areas of Suffolk County. The workforce additionally conducts excessive profile sobriety checkpoints
and saturation patrols on main vacation weekends all year long. Members are extensively educated in DWI
detection, SFSTs, ARIDE. Most members are licensed SFST instructors and Drug Recognition Consultants, who’re
sometimes known as to the scene of significant motorcar crashes to judge operators and to help detectives in any
arrest and follow-up prosecution of impaired drivers. Below Sergeant Detwiler’s management, the SAFE Group has
made properly over 6,000 arrests for DWI/DWAI, seized a number of hundred automobiles pushed by recidivist offenders, and
performed over 50 sobriety checkpoints with lively participation by volunteers from MADD. Private “ridealongs” performed by Sergeant Detwiler with members of the media resulted within the broad dissemination of the
ongoing proactive DWI enforcement efforts of his workforce. Throughout his tenure, the SAFE Group has additionally offered
1000’s of hours of coaching associated to DWI enforcement to law enforcement officials all through New York State. In
addition to supervising the SAFE Group, with its numerous enforcement and coaching parts, Sergeant Detwiler
has been a member of the MADD Regulation Enforcement and Advisory Committees for the past2 eleven years, offering
counsel and help to MADD in furtherance of its mission.
Deputy Joshua VanSkiver – Steuben County Sheriff’s Workplace
Deputy VanSkiver has exceeded 3,000 profession DWI/DWAI arrests throughout his 17-year profession. He has acquired the
MADD/Cease DWI Particular person Recognition Award 11 instances. Deputy VanSkiver has accounted for roughly half
of the SCSO DWI/DWAI arrests since 2018, as a member of the Cease DWI Enforcement Unit. He’s a BAO Teacher
and an SFST Teacher. Deputy VanSkiver is a well-respected and interesting speaker, who the spreads the Cease DWI
message regionally, by way of shows and influence panels. What makes Deputy VanSkiver such an enticing
and revered speaker is the angle he shares, not solely as a regulation enforcement officer, however as somebody who
has misplaced a cherished one, his sister in 2014, to a drunk driver. Deputy VanSkiver’s influence is immeasurable. His effort
has undoubtedly saved lives. Deputy VanSkiver’s motivation has been an instance to the youthful members of this
company and has fostered an elevated significance within the function of enforcement in stopping tragedy. Since his
arrival, the Sheriff’s Workplace has elevated DWI/DWAI arrests by over 100%.
Retired Police Officer Samuel Ferrandino – Nassau County Police Division
Police Officer Samuel Ferrandino joined the New York Metropolis Police Division in 2001. In his 3 years with the
NYPD, he made 51 DWI arrests earlier than becoming a member of the Nassau County Police Division in 2004. It was evident early
on in his profession that Police Officer Ferrandino was obsessed with implementing New York State DWI legal guidelines. He was
on patrol for 15 years, working within the 1st Precinct and the Freeway Patrol Bureau. Throughout that point, he made 1,030
DWI arrests with 231 assists. Police Officer Ferrandino was educated in Standardized Area Sobriety Testing (SFST),
Superior Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) and was a Licensed Breath Tech. In 2018 Ferrandino
joined the Central Testing Part bringing his information and coaching into the unit. From 2018 to 2021 he
performed 512 breath exams and have become a significant asset to our workforce. Ferrandino needed to complete his police profession
the best way it began, volunteering to return out on patrol to participate in our DWI enforcement program. Police
Officer Ferrandino made 15 DWI arrests earlier than retiring in July 2021. For 20 years Ferrandino was a significant component
in defending our residents and made it his mission to take DWI offenders off the streets of Nassau County.
Retired Police Officer Albert Samuel Weech – Rochester Police Division
Officer Weech has been devoted to the STOP-DWI program for a lot of, a few years and performs an important function in
enforcement for the Rochester Police Division. Officer Weech lately retired after 20 years of service. He
has amassed over 3,000 DWI (impairment) arrests over his profession and is well-known for his dedication. He’s additionally
a DRE and has accomplished quite a few DRE evaluations. He’s a DWI teacher on the Monroe County Public Security
Coaching Heart and has taught numerous new Police Officers impairment coaching.
Along with our Chief of Excellence and Lifetime Achievement Awards, we introduced awards within the following
classes: 2021 High State Arresting Officer, Recognition of Excellence – DRE Enforcement Awards, Recognition of
Excellence Awards, Impaired Driving Enforcement Unit Recognition Awards, Division of the Yr Awards. The
recipients of those awards symbolize departments and businesses from throughout New York State.
Our Regulation Enforcement retains us secure in some ways, together with on the roadways. They put themselves in peril on
a every day foundation – and a few pay the last word value. Forty-four p.c of the officers killed within the line of responsibility had been
killed in visitors crashes. That’s why we help these heroes who hold our roads secure not simply right now however each day.
Congratulations to all of the recipients!
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About Moms Towards Drunk Driving
Based in 1980 by a mom whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Moms Towards Drunk Driving®
(MADD) is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to finish drunk driving, assist combat drugged driving, help the
victims of those violent crimes and forestall underage consuming. MADD has helped to save lots of greater than 400,000 lives,
cut back drunk driving deaths by greater than 50 p.c and promote designating a non-drinking driver. MADD has
offered supportive companies to almost a million drunk and drugged driving victims and survivors at no cost
by way of native sufferer advocates and the 24-Hour Sufferer Assist Line 1-877-MADD-HELP. Be taught extra at
www.madd.org/ny.
