(Complete Vitae available upon request)

Anthony Palacios is the DUI Detection/SFST and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) consultant, as well as the CEO of IDS Consulting. Anthony is the former SFST State Coordinator for the State of Georgia and a former SFST/DRE staff instructor for the Georgia Police Academy at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC). Anthony is a former International Association Chiefs of Police Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Practitioner, Instructor, and Train the Trainer, as well as a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) Practitioner, Instructor, and Train the Trainer. While in law enforcement, Anthony trained over 3,000 Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee law enforcement officers and prosecutors in the detection of drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

Since forming IDS Consulting in 2008, Anthony has consulted in over 525 DUI/SFST & DRE related cases in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, DC, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Anthony has lectured overseas, nationally, and at annual state conferences on DUI/SFST & DRE related topics for both prosecutors and defense attorneys.

Key qualifications include:

National & State Presentations

• New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, “There’s a Bullcoming, Are You Ready?” 2011, Albuquerque, New Mexico, “Standardized Field Sobriety Testing” & “The Drug Recognition Expert”

• Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy, 38th Annual Public Defender Conference 2011, Lexington, Kentucky, "The Drug Recognition Expert"

• New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Annual DUI Training Seminar 2011, Manchester, New Hampshire "The Drug Recognition Expert"

• United States Park Rangers, Annual In-Service Training 2011, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, "The Drug Recognition Expert"

• New York State Bar Association, "DWI on Trial - The Big Apple XI" 2011, New york City, New York, "The Drug Recognition Expert"
  

• The Tennessee Public Defender's Office, 2010 Tennessee Public Defenders Annual Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, "The 12 Step DRE Evaluation"

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & National College for DUI Defense, 2010 14th Annual DUI Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada, "The 12 Step DRE Evaluation"

• The Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2010 Defending SFSTs & DRE Conference, Rutland, Vermont, "The Concepts and Principals of the SFSTs" & "The 12 Step DRE Process"

• The Oklahoma Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2010 Advanced SFST & DRE Seminar, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, "The Concepts and Principals of the SFSTs" & "The 12 Step DRE Process"

• The New Mexico Public Defender's Office, 2010 DUI Conference, Alberquerque, New Mexico, "The Drug Recognition Expert"

• The Missouri Bar, 2010 3rd Annual DWI Law & Science Seminar, Lake Ozark, Missouri, "The 12 Step DRE Process"

• Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, 2010 Annual DUID Conference, Keystone, Colorado, "Everything You Need to Know About the DRE"

• National College for DUI Defense, 2010 Winter Session, Celebrity Solstice, "Field Sobriety Tests - Learning What They Are and How to Use Them"
  

• National College for DUI Defense, 2009 Summer Session, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Overview of the Drug Recognition Expert Program"

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & National College for DUI Defense, 12th Annual DUI Seminar 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, "Analyzing a Police Video"

• ICLE of Georgia, Handling Administrative License Suspensions and Revocations 2008 Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, "The Proper Administration of the SFSTs"

• Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, 2005 Summer Conference, Jekyll Island, Georgia, "Administering the SFSTs"

Other Qualifications Include:

• Instructed over 4,000 hours in the NHTSA/IACP national Impaired Driving curriculum

• Instructed the NHTSA DUI/SFST practitioner course, DUI/SFST Instructor course, SFST Instructor Update course, and SFST Refresher course over 90 times to law enforcement officers and attorneys

• Instructed the IACP Drug Recognition Expert Instructor course, DRE Pre-School, DRE 7-Day School, and DRE Re-Certification course over 30 times to law enforcement officers

• Instructed the NHTSA Drugs That Impair Driving course over 45 times to law enforcement officers and attorneys

• Critiqued over 1,000 law enforcement officers in the proper administration of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests during course Proficiency exams

• Critiqued over 100 law enforcement officers in the Drug Recognition Expert 12- step evaluation process during course Field Certification Phase

• Reviewed and analyzed over 300 DUI/DRE narratives for law enforcement officers and prosecutors and over 300 DUI/DRE case files for defense attorneys
  

• Arrested over 800 impaired drivers and assisted in over 200 additional impaired driving arrests as a DUI Task Force officer and/or DRE Instructor

• Conducted over 130 alcohol workshops dosing over 520 persons with alcoholic beverages observing signs and symptoms of alcohol consumption with breath alcohol readings ranging from .01 to .15 grams.