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MADD Honors Farmington Hills Police Officer

In his first full year as a Farmington Hills police officer, Nicholas West made 33 drunken driving arrests.

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Farmington Hills Police Chief Chief Charles Nebus, right, congratulates Officer Nicholas West, who recently was awarded the 2014 Lifesavers Award from MADD. (Photo submitted)

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Farmington Hills Police Officer Nicholas West took 33 drunken drivers off city streets in 2014.

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That was enough to earn him the MADD 2014 Lifesavers Award, presented recently during the group’s annual Lifesavers Award Luncheon at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills.

West joined the police department in June 2013 after serving as a police officer in Auburn HIlls for a year and a half. He is also a veteran of the United States Air Force.

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As a whole, the Farmington Hills Police Department made 233 arrests from drunken driving in 2014.

Police Chief Charles Nebus said the combined efforts of West and other officers have made “travel safer in Farmington Hills.”

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