RE: I don't think he had, I'm not sure exactly which of the
recruits for the Florida Highway Patrol made the transfer from
the old weight inspection patrol.
RG: You went down to see them train several times?
RE: I went down to teach them the traffic laws at three of their
first recruit schools.
RG: Oh you did.
RE: We had classes there and I taught traffic laws, taught them the
provisions of the new Department of Safety laws which
prescribed violations of traffic laws, the arrests by
patrolman, what they should do, what kind of bonds they should
take from arrestees and so on. We had daily classes there.
RG: Yes sir.
RE: I continued for three years afterwards to go to the Patrol
recruit school and teach the recruits during the period they
were training.
RG: Do you remember the transition from the Director of the Highway
Patrol from Reid to Kirkman. How much later, probably
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