ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Eight months after a New Year’s Day crash involving an Albuquerque Fire Rescue captain, the city’s deputy chief of police acknowledged they should have handled the call differently.
APD Deputy Chief Cecily Barker agreed to sit down with 4 Investigates. She said, if information about possible intoxication had been flagged properly, a supervisor or officer should have been sent to the scene. Instead, only a police service aide was dispatched.
“So, if that information was relayed, I would expect at that time that a sergeant get involved,” Barker said. “Either a supervisor should have responded or an officer.”…