Deborah Richardson

And throughout the course of the day, they put you through a series of tests.

So walk a straight line, try and catch this ruler and

Yes, incredibly drunk.

I was asked to drink eight glasses of wine in the first hour and to keep drinking after that.

A few days later, I was sitting in a class and a sergeant came in and I was told that I needed to go to the superintendent's office and we only had about four weeks left in the academy.

And so very unusual that you were being called to the superintendent's office.

And when I arrived, one of the other policewomen that was in my squad had walked out of that room and I looked at her and I said, are you OK?

And she gave me the thumbs down and she said, see you later.

I'm gone.

And I was like, oh, my goodness, what what is going on?

And so I walked into the room and there was about 12 people.

various degrees from sergeant up to the superintendent, sitting around in a semicircle with one chair in the middle of that that was for me.

And I sat down and during the course of the Alcohol Awareness Day, they had filmed us.

And so they had video evidence of what had gone on for the day.

Did you know that?

I can't say that I recall anything.

that we were even told that that was going to happen, possibly.

But again, I was drunk.

So my awareness is that I'm not sure.

And all of a sudden, the sergeant opens up and he said, we've called you in here today because we believe you have an emotional disturbance and you shouldn't be a policewoman.