Traffic police encounter

coppers have a nose for this stuff

they're on the christmas watch for drink drivers driving on their way back from office parties etc..

You werent drunk so they sent you on your way after making sure you were a decent honest sort of bloke. They do this every christmas and its to be expected if your out this late.
 
whitecrook said:
I thought even if you take say one slurp of alcohol, and get breathalysed (shortly thereafter), it would read positive, just due to the fumes... I mean, there are reports of people testing positive for using alcoholic mouthwash...
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That's why whenever you are stopped and they are giving you a breath test they ask if you've had a drink within the last 10 minutes.
If you have then they have to wait 10 minutes before giving you the test.
 
Lead_Head said:
Only if the station breath test is below 50mg per 100ml of blood do you get the option of a blood test.

The limit is 35mg of alcohol per 100mg of blood.
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I was under the impression that it was your legal right to always have the option of requesting a blood test?
 
No I believe the poast above is right.
Only if you are between 36 & 50 do you get the option of a blood test.
Unless you can show that medically you cannot blow into the test equipment at the station.
 
rypt said:
I was under the impression that it was your legal right to always have the option of requesting a blood test?
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You can refuse to give a road side breath test. If you do you will be arrested and taken to the nearest police for a compulsory blood test, unless you are willing to give a breath test.

Is 20 minutes enough for a certain level of alcohol to escape your system? I was unaware of allowing 20 minutes before providing a breath sample if you've recently had any alcohol, it's an interesting point.

In theory you could say you've just had a drink when it could have been hours ago, giving your body a further 20 minutes to remove traces of alcohol from your system. Once the 20 minutes is up you could then refuse to give a breath test, be arrested and taken to the nearest police station. Refuse the breath test at the station and then you'll have to wait for a qualified person to take a blood sample giving you even more time to remove alcohol from your system!
 
Lead_Head said:
You can refuse to give a road side breath test. If you do you will be arrested and taken to the nearest police for a compulsory blood test, unless you are willing to give a breath test.

Is 20 minutes enough for a certain level of alcohol to escape your system? I was unaware of allowing 20 minutes before providing a breath sample if you've recently had any alcohol, it's an interesting point.

In theory you could say you've just had a drink when it could have been hours ago, giving your body a further 20 minutes to remove traces of alcohol from your system. Once the 20 minutes is up you could then refuse to give a breath test, be arrested and taken to the nearest police station. Refuse the breath test at the station and then you'll have to wait for a qualified person to take a blood sample giving you even more time to remove alcohol from your system!
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Which is a quick way to guarentee that they will throw the book at you if you're even 1 over the limit, Officers have discretion up to 40 and can let you walk with a slap on the wrist. You play your game and get hit at 36 and you bet they'll throw the book at you.
 
Just to clarify the blood test rules:

You do not have a right to insist on supplying a sample of blood or urine instead. If you fail to supply a breath specimen at the station you will committed an offence, unless you have a reasonable excuse.
Being too drunk or unfit to supply the necessary breath specimen is NOT a reasonable excuse. A medical condition which prevents you from supplying enough breath for the machine to sample may be a sufficient excuse.
If you have such a condition you must advise the police at the time.

The police may legitimately request that you provide a specimen of blood or urine as an alternative to a breath test, if :-

1. No automatic measuring device is available at the time of your arrest, or it is not working properly.
2. The offence involves drugs and the police officer has taken medical advice that your condition may be due to drugs.
3. The police officer making the request has reasonable cause to believe that breath samples should not be requested for health reasons

And clarification on if you are "close" to the limit:

If the lower of the two breath readings at the station is 39 micrograms or below, then you should be released either without charge or with a caution.
If it is between 40 and 50 micrograms, then you MUST be offered the option of providing an alternative specimen of either blood or urine (if the police fail to offer you this option then you will have a defence to the charge).
You should be asked which you would prefer, but it is up to the police to decide which one they offer you, unless, again, you have a medical condition which would preclude you from providing the necessary sample.
The police cannot take a blood sample without your consent, but if this is the option offered and you refuse to consent then the police can rely on the breath sample they have taken.
 
Most coppers are ok, dont talk to them like crap, they are human, just be normal and not an idiot, they will be ok with you.
 
I was chased once by the police.

Was leaving a girl home and there was a police checkpoint just after the turn in to her estate.

The police man kinda signalled to get me to stop. I was in a state of, do i go up to him, then turn around, or just go into the estate. At the last kinda second i decided to fling it into the estate. Cue the police running to their cars and sticking on the lights...

They seen the girl getting out of my car, at which point they turned of the lights and just drove back to their checkpoint. Never even had a word with me.
 
Most cops are alright in my experience. However, there are a number of Traffic Officers out there with a king size attitude problem unfortunately.

It might be a regional thing. When I was living in South Wales I had largely negative experience with traffic cops, up here in Leicestershire I barely even see them on the roads.
 
Lopéz said:
Most cops are alright in my experience. However, there are a number of Traffic Officers out there with a king size attitude problem unfortunately.

It might be a regional thing. When I was living in South Wales I had largely negative experience with traffic cops, up here in Leicestershire I barely even see them on the roads.
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Have been pulled a few times over the years but there was a 6m period wher eI got pulled over every few weeks to a month in Huddersfield, quite often buy the same guy. Never found anything wrong either. The last time I got pulled and deserved it was when I turned the 200sx in the road by lighting up the back tyres and screaming it around:D I got told off for not being in control of the vehicle but they weren't too bad about it. The next time was at 4am after dropping my folks off at the airport, doing 85 in a 70. Quick pull, not even a producer!
 
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