SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – An off-duty San Jose police officer has been booked on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge after a two-car accident on Sunday night, continuing a year of high-profile instances of officers' alleged misconduct on and off the job.
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The San Jose Police Department announced on Monday that police arrested Raydarius Surry, a third-year officer, after showed "symptoms of alcohol influence" following a downtown collision with another vehicle at the intersection of South Fourth and East San Fernando streets.
Officers responded to the scene just before 11:30 p.m. on Sunday and then conducted a field sobriety test and a preliminary alcohol screening, according to Monday’s release. Surry was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, as was the other adult man involved in the collision.
San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said his department has "no tolerance for behavior that does not align with" its "values," and he will "do everything in my authority to hold employees accountable" when they break the law or department policy.
Police said the case has been forwarded to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, and the department is conducting "an internal administrative" investigation.
Surry's arrest occurred a little more than two months after the San Jose Police Department instituted a policy placing officers accused of criminal misconduct on administrative leave. Police told Bay Area News Group on Monday that Surry's arrest "does not rise to the level where we would automatically put someone on administrative leave."
Police announced the policy in May, one week after a former code inspector was sentenced to 35 years in prison for extorting money and sex from massage parlor owners and two weeks after an officer, who was previously investigated for sexual assault and harassment, was arrested fo allegedly masturbating in a family's home while responding to a domestic violence call.
Two days before that officer's arrest, the department released footage of an officer shooting a 20-year-old college football player within three seconds of telling the man to drop a gun he had disarmed from another person during an altercation. Earlier that month, the Santa Clara County Coroner's Office said a 24-year-old officer died in March of "fentanyl toxicity" after he attended a party with his fellow officers the previous night.
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