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Can you ask to be breathalysed?

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  • #32
    Eru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Eru


    Fyr.Fytr wrote: »
    Still youd like the traffic light system the brits have on their machines, simple pass or fail, take the guess work out of it.

    Let alone the time saved as stated above

    My understanding is that your still tested at the station for an exact reading.

    In Spain they have mobile machines. Just get on the radio, it rolls up and your tested.


  • #33
    Fyr.Fytr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Fyr.Fytr


    I know that its just its easier you get a pass or fail there, rather then the machine telling you someone had a drink, but may not be over the limit.


  • #34
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    bryanmurr wrote: »
    The alcolyser (Roadside) is a screening device to determine the presence of alcohol and does not give an exact reading (Zero/Pass/Alert/Fail),whereas the intoxilyser (station) determines concentration of alcohol on your breath and gives an exact result to be used in evidence.

    has anyone ever regretted or second-guessed their decision not to take someone into the station?


  • #35
    TheNog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭TheNog


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    has anyone ever regretted or second-guessed their decision not to take someone into the station?

    Usually the people I have arrested on suspicion of drunk driving are sound enough people who have made a terrible mistake and with these people I do feel sorry for but the fact remains that if they continued driving they may have crashed and seriously hurt themselves or someone else. I always keep this in mind. I do not prosecute these people for the sake of it or that I want to but rather to keep the roads a little safer.


  • #36
    metman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭metman


    Karlitosway1978 wrote: »
    My understanding is that your still tested at the station for an exact reading.

    In Spain they have mobile machines. Just get on the radio, it rolls up and your tested.

    The ESD (electronic screening device) is only an indicator and does not give a an evidential reading. You still get taken to the nick and put on the intoxilyser and have to provide two evidential samples. The lower of the two readings is then used.


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  • #37
    Eru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Eru


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    has anyone ever regretted or second-guessed their decision not to take someone into the station?

    Never let someone go and thought I made a mistake but have felt bad after an arrest.
    metman wrote: »
    The ESD (electronic screening device) is only an indicator and does not give a an evidential reading. You still get taken to the nick and put on the intoxilyser and have to provide two evidential samples. The lower of the two readings is then used.

    Thats what I thought, just the same as our system.


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