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Article: VIDEOTAPING OF DRUNKEN-DRIVING SUSPECTS IS HALTED STATE POLICE PRACTICE OF FILMING ALLEGED VIOLATORS IS SUSPENDED PENDING COST REVIEW

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August 12, 1989
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State Police have suspended a policy that requires troopers to videotape drunken-driving suspects while they are being booked. The suspension will last while police evaluate the policy's cost-effectiveness.

Stanley Adelman, general counsel for Public Safety Secretary Charles Barry, said yesterday that the policy was suspended because budget constraints have made it impossible to put video equipment and tapes in every State Police barracks.

Also, Adelman said, the failure to videotape a suspect has been used as a defense tactic in at least one case.

"If your policy says something, you should have to be bound to

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