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Page 8A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian DUII: 6RPHGHSDUWPHQWVVWDUWHG WUDFNLQJKRZPDQ\GULYHUVDUH XQGHUWKHLQÀXHQFHRIPDULMXDQD Continued from 1A [fewer] impaired people on the roadways.” +HUPLVWRQ RI¿FHUV DOVR made 10 arrests in 2014 for people refusing to take a duii tests. That rose to 17 this year. (GPLVWRQ DOVR VDLG FDOOV IRU VHUYLFH IRU WKH VDPH SHULRGVDUHGRZQSHUFHQW FRPSDUHGWR ZKLOH RI¿FHULQLWLDWHG DFWLYLW\ MXPSHG SHUFHQW FRPSDUHGWR and arrests overall also rose from 1,234 in 2014 to 1,300 WKURXJK'HFWKLV\HDU Duii arrests for Pendleton SROLFHWKRXJKVKRWXSWR WKURXJK 'HF DFFRUGLQJ WR ¿JXUHV IURP 3HQGOHWRQ 3ROLFH&KLHI6WXDUW5REHUWV That's 20 more than all of 2014. But, like Hermiston, ZK\WKHFKDQJHLVDJXHVVLQJ game. ³7KHUH DUH DQ LQ¿QLWH QXPEHURIUHDVRQVWKDWFRXOG GR LQÀXHQFH VXFK VWDWLVWLFDO LQIRUPDWLRQ´ 5REHUWV VWDWHG in an email. 0LOWRQ)UHHZDWHU SROLFH &KLHI 'RXJ %RHGLJKHLPHU UHSRUWHG GXLL DUUHVWV WKLV year, nine more than in 2014. $QG WKH 8PDWLOOD &RXQW\ 6KHULII¶V 2I¿FH KDG D VSLNH as well, from 30 for all of XS WR WKURXJK 'HF 22. ³,KDYHDFRXSOH\RXQJHU RI¿FHUVZKRDUHUHDOJRJHW ters,” Boedigheimer said. ³6R WKH\¶UH KXQJU\ IRU WKLV W\SH RI WKLQJ DQG PLJKW EH PRUH DFWLYHO\ ORRNLQJ IRU GXLLV 2U KDSSHQVWDQFH %HLQJPRUHLQWKHULJKWSODFH at the right time type of VFHQDULR´ Undersheriff Jim Little ¿HOGVDLGWKHVKHULII¶VRI¿FH made new moves starting in 2FWREHU WR ZRUN ZLWK ³KLJKYLVLELOLW\HQIRUFHPHQW´ JUDQWVDWFHUWDLQWLPHVGXULQJ WKH \HDU VXFK DV WKH ZHHN RI WKH 3HQGOHWRQ 5RXQG8S and during the holiday VHDVRQ DQG WKH DJHQF\ DOVR prioritized duii training DQG HQIRUFHPHQW $QRWKHU reason, he said, was having more patrols on the roads than in past years. %RDUGPDQ SROLFH PDGH GXLL DUUHVWV LQ WKH VDPH QXPEHU WKURXJK 'HF 22 of 2014. And Umatilla SROLFHPDGHDUUHVWVDVRI 'HF MXVW RQH PRUH WKDQ in 2014. 6RPH GHSDUWPHQWV DUH VWDUWLQJ WR WUDFN KRZ PDQ\ of those impaired drivers DUH XQGHU WKH LQÀXHQFH RI PDULMXDQD GXH LQ ODUJH SDUW WR 0HDVXUH WDNLQJ HIIHFW in July. 3HQGOHWRQ SROLFH FRQGXFWHG GUXJLPSDLUHG evaluations of those 111 drivers this year, two more WKDQLQ6HYHQRI+HUP LVWRQ¶V GXLL DUUHVWV ZHUH IRU FRQWUROOHG VXEVWDQFHV and two of those were for PDULMXDQD(GPLVWRQVDLGWKH department was waiting on ODEUHVXOWVIRUIRXUPRUH7KH VKHULII¶VRI¿FHPDGHWZRGXLL DUUHVWVIRUPDULMXDQDDQGWZR others were for other drugs. 5REHUWV H[SODLQHG 2UHJRQ¶V GULYLQJ XQGHU WKH LQÀXHQFHODZ³LVDOOHQFRP passing” and does not distin JXLVK GUXJLPSDLUHG GULYHUV IURP WKRVH ZKR FRQVXPHG DOFRKRO “Therefore,” he stated, ³ZH KDYH FUHDWHG D IRUP FRPSULVHG RI ¿YH TXHVWLRQV WKDW WKH RI¿FHUV DUH DVNLQJ offenders during DUII SURFHVVLQJSRVWDUUHVWWRKHOS XV HYDOXDWH PDULMXDQD XVH SUHYDOHQFH´ 7KH TXHVWLRQV +DYH \RX XVHG PDULMXDQD LQ WKH previous 24 hours? 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In a written response to the audit, Employment 'HSDUWPHQW 'LUHFWRU /LVD Nisenfeld wrote that the DJHQF\ KDV DOUHDG\ VWDUWHG to implement some of the DXGLWRUV¶UHFRPPHQGDWLRQV However, Nisenfeld wrote that some of the sugges WLRQV ² VXFK DV VWULFWO\ OLPLWLQJ ZKLFK HPSOR\HHV FDQ DFFHVV FHUWDLQ GDWD ² FDQQRW EH LPSOHPHQWHG until a new system is in SODFH Auditors wrote that FRPSXWHU V\VWHPV VKRXOG HPSOR\ ³D FRPSOH[ DQG PXOWLOD\HUHG´ VHFXULW\ system to defend against KDFNHUV EXW VWRSSHG VKRUW of saying whether the Employment Department systems met that goal. 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