A sergeant with the Seattle Police Department’s gang unit was suspended for four days over his daytime DUI arrest last September, according to a disciplinary report released last Friday. An off-duty Everett police officer found Sergeant Jeffrey Page “slumped” behind the wheel of his truck at an intersection in Monroe with an open container of hard seltzer in his center console and a half-empty bottle of vodka in the back seat.
According to the police report, Page’s truck did not move through “several” cycles of the traffic light, so the officer got out to check on him. He contacted Monroe police after seeing the open container in Page’s vehicle.
Page admitted to drinking at the golf course earlier and blew a 0.116 on the portable breathalyzer test. He was arrested for physical control. The court later dropped that charge, and Page pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of negligent driving. His sentence was suspended for two years, but he was ordered to submit to monitoring, attend alcohol classes and a DUI victim’s panel, and undergo an evaluation for alcoholism.
In his interview with the Office of Police Accountability, Page said that he took the plea deal so “the department could move on with their investigation and hopefully bring me back to work as soon as possible.”
The plea deal may have simplified the OPA’s investigation, but the evidence was airtight as it was. Explaining its findings, the OPA noted that “additional aspects of this incident” undermined public trust, including his “level of intoxication,” which “caused him to either fall asleep or pass out while operating his vehicle on a public road.”
This was one of two DUI-related disciplinary reports released on Friday. The other concerns an incident in which an SPD student officer ran a stop sign and crashed his motorcycle in Seattle in 2024. He was reportedly “sweating profusely” in cold weather, his skin was pale and flushed, and his pupils were dilated. He left the department before the investigation was completed.
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Incidents like these are particularly embarrassing for the department as the city works to implement Vision Zero, a plan to achieve zero traffic fatalities or injuries by 2030. In 2025, the number of pedestrian deaths nearly doubled the previous year’s figure, while overall traffic deaths continue to hover at around 30. Responding to a sense of urgency about the issue, Mayor Katie Wilson signed an executive order to accelerate road safety improvements throughout the city last week.
Respondents to SPD’s public safety survey rated traffic safety as the top concern over issues such as gun violence and property crime, and fewer than 40 percent view the department as legitimate. The memory of SPD Officer Kevin Dave striking and killing Jaahnavi Kandula is still fresh in the public’s memory after Seattle got a $29 million reminder in February, when the city settled a wrongful death suit with her family.
Hired in 2004, Sergeant Jeffrey Page makes $187,408 in base pay annually. He made $35,772 in overtime in 2024, the last year for which DivestSPD has complete overtime data.
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