CALIFORNIA dui lawyers weren't invited to this party.

It's hardly what you'd expect from a roomful of police officers and paramedics -- the officers not only approved of, but encouraged the paramedics to get drunk at a Manteca hotel.

A dozen officers from around California spent three days this week becoming certified in conducting standardized CALIFORNIA dui field sobriety tests. By getting that certification, they'll be better equipped to win CALIFORNIA dui - drunk driving court cases.

At some point, they needed to put their new knowledge to the test -- and that's where the paramedics entered the picture.

"They can teach you everything in a book, but with hands on, you learn. That's what we're doing today," claimed Manteca Officer Stephen Schluer.

A half-dozen paramedics were asked to help the testing process by reaching blood alcohol levels between .08 and .12. In California, a person is legally drunk if he or she has reached .08.

The newly-trained officers spent the rest of the afternoon field-testing the intoxicated paramedics for how they responded to the three standard field tests.

By the way, those CALIFORNIA dui tests, which are now considered by junk scientists as somewhat reliable and expediently used by California DUI prosecutors for use in court cases are:

horizontal eye movement;

walking and turning;

and standing on one foot.

CALIFORNIA dui attorneys justifiably question their motives and the accuracy of these acrobatics.