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Ref:184/07
July 30, 2007
Drug Driving
Meredydd Hughes, ACPO lead on roads policing and Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police said:
“We know from our intelligence that drug use when driving is on the increase and a significant number of serious injuries are caused by drug driving and it is often young male drivers who are involved in these crashes.
The law needs to be made much simpler, in that it should be made a simple offence to take illegal drugs and drive on the road. At present we have to test for the impairment of a driver suspected of taking drugs.
Impairment and the measurement of impairment is a complicated issue and I believe we need to focus on a simple law because impairment is only one of the measures of your ability to drive and other measures such as attitude, judgement and education need to be taken into account.
ACPO would like to see some clarity around this issue and a way forward to test drivers for drugs rather than impairment.”
ENDS
Notes for Editors
• The ACPO Press Office can be contacted via 020 7084 8946/47/48 (office hours) or via 07803 903686 (out of office hours).
• The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is an independent, professionally led strategic body. In the public interest and, in equal and active partnership with Government and the Association of Police Authorities, ACPO leads and co-ordinates the direction and development of the police service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In times of national need ACPO, on behalf of all chief officers, coordinates the strategic policing response.
• ACPO’s 341 members are police officers of Assistant Chief Constable rank (Commanders in the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police) and above, and senior police staff managers, in the 44 forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and other forces such as British Transport Police and States of Jersey Police.
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