New Zealand Police. Nga Pirihimana O Aotearoa.

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Off the road

One night out we received a call from a concerned member of the public about a friend who had been on a drinking binge for about three days. Apparently, she was going to drive. I headed around to her place and noticed her vehicle was still there.

I backed out and parked up the street and waited.

Sure enough, about ten minutes later the vehicle drove out of the driveway. I followed behind with enough time to see the vehicle swerving across the road. I pulled her over and she said that she would fail the test as she had been drinking. After carrying out the breath-testing procedures, I took her back to the station, where she ended up blowing a result of 1566mcgs (way over the limit).

This was the highest reading I had recorded and I hope I don’t have any more which are that high. It was a great result to get someone that drunk off the road before she hurt herself or someone else.

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