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In the UK they certainly do. There's usually a campaign around the christmas season. But it's carried out under the guise as a general vehicle checkpoint. When
by teh_klev 7y ago
In the UK they certainly do. There's usually a campaign around the christmas season. But it's carried out under the guise as a general vehicle checkpoint. When stopped the officer will speak to the driver and then if they have "good reason" to suspect you've been drinking can insist on a portable breathalyser test.
This reddit comment sums things up reasonably well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/803y16/drink_drive_checkpoints_in_the_uk/dustr0o https://www.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/803y16/drink_driv...
- mytailorisrich 7y agoThat's not random testing since they have to establish cause, as that Reddit comment explains. Of course the Police may ask and many people will not know that they are not compelled to accept without cause, or they don't want to argue. In some countries the police is allowed to conduct road-side tests without cause.
- alkonaut 7y agoYeah I can’t even see any good arguments such as for why police shouldn’t be able to breath test any driver.
- teh_klev 7y agoThe roadside checks themselves are random as they aren't announced to the public, or if they are they're posted somewhere that's non-obvious. What comes afterwards when pulled over at one of these stops is inevitably a check to see if you've been drinking. I'm not saying this is fair or in the spirit of the law, but it's how they do this, and they're random enough.