By Eric King
Officers stopped Lorna Stoker, a police officer at North Walsham Police Station in a vehicle on the A149 shortly after 1.50am on Monday and she was arrested after failing a roadside breath test.
Lorna Stoker was taken into custody at Great Yarmouth Police Investigation Centre where she was later charged with drink driving. She was later released on bail to appear before Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court on Monday December 19.
This is another case of a police officer breaking rules she should be upholding and endangering people’s loves in the process. It seems absolutely ridiculous that a police officer would fail a breath test because she has been drinking and driving.
The Norfolk police officer has no previous convictions but decided to risk going behind the wheels despite knowing it was wrong. Drinkers sometimes fail to measure the correct boundaries of alcohol before going behind the wheels , but a police officer is expected to know where to draw the lines. The Norfolk police officer was on her way home when she was spotted by other corps who caught her on high christmas spirit, bringing her joy down a bit.
It is ironic that another police officer pulled their colleague from a different police force without realizing they were pulling another officer. One can be sure that Stoker eventually revealed her identity as a police officer to the police who pulled her, but the officer by then had to do their job and proceed with the breath test. That’s professionalism and the way police officers are expected to conduct themselves.
Breath tests are usually conducted when an officer sees signs of reckless driving or smells alcohol in the breath of the a driver after they have been pulled. Usually, both factors are at work when an officer pulls a car over and conducts a breath test. Stoker now faces a fine or points on her license , which is not good, but is unlikely to get a ban. Hopefully, stoker will have much fewer sips of alcohol when next she is going behind the wheel, or even better , none at all. Lorna Atoker should be a standard bearer of the law, and she knows that. The Norfolk officer will learn a hard lesson from this