BURLESON - It's likely few officers can remember a traffic stop quite like the one that took place early Sunday morning. A policeman arrested a fellow officer after discovering him asleep in his patrol car.

"We work with these individuals everyday," said Commander Chris Havens, Burleson Police Department. "To put one in jail is just tough."

At 3:49 a.m. Sunday, a Burleson officer pulled in behind another police car. Inside was a Fort Worth officer on his way home. However, fifteen minutes prior to the discovery, Officer Clinton Wyatt, 32, had apparently fallen asleep in the car while he sat at a traffic light in the 100 block of NW Burleson Boulevard.

The Burleson officer activated his emergency lights, turned on his video camera and microphone and walked up to the Fort Worth police car. After removing the keys, waking Wyatt up and noting his slurred speech, the Burleson officer got his Fort Worth colleague to step out of the car.

"You been drinking tonight?" the officer could be heard saying on video from a Burleson Police Department's dash-mounted camera.

"No," Wyatt responded.

"Nothing at all?" the officer asked.

The official booking sheet, reviewed by News 8, reported that Wyatt did have a "slight to moderate odor of alcohol" on him.

"If the investigation shows that he has broken the law he is not above anybody else, even though he wears a badge," Havens said.

Officer Wyatt refused breathalyzer and field sobriety tests on the tape.

Seconds later, the Burleson policeman asked Officer Wyatt to turn around on his own patrol car and put his hands behind his back where he was handcuffed.

Lt. Paul Henderson, a Fort Worth police spokesperson, said he is not sure where Wyatt had been prior to the arrest.

While he had the city's permission to drive his patrol car home to Burleson, he had gotten off from his second job at the Texas Motor Speedway ten hours earlier.

On tape, Wyatt was cooperative; but he wasn't treated any differently than anyone else.

Fort Worth police are checking to see if anyone else was involved in the incident.

Officer Wyatt has not returned a call seeking comment.

Despite what happens with the DWI charge, Wyatt will automatically lose his drivers license. According to state law, those who refuse a breathalyzer test lose their license for 90 days.

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