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State Police Press and Public Relations Office informs Ventspils city and the district police administration received the drug testers in determining the presence of the body Ventspils PRPP Police Law Office 3. Division (Road Police) officers received testers Ora-line, which on the ground could verify the presence of the body of drugs and thereby determine whether a person has or has not braukusi drugs. Distributed to each tester the crew on duty and are essential to facilitate police work. Until now, whether the driver has drugs, it was determined police officer and himself, analyzing, it was necessary to decide whether the driver lead to a hospital for testing or not. Now, if suspected of driving reibumu, drug testing will be done on the spot after the car suspension. After that test, if it proves to be positive, the fact remains the person will be transported to a hospital for analysis.

However, these tests use a maximum turn off when the analysis carried out improperly, which is costly and may even pay more than 100 lats per person.

Tester is used saliva samples, and they produce virtually all the drugs in the body.

This year, Ventspils PRPP presented in 8 administrative violation reports on vehicle handling drugs, but in one case, the presence of the drugs were found in the driver's body. Perhaps, after drug testers use this figure could rise.

We remind you that driving on the influence of drugs a person may be punished by administrative arrests from 10 to 15 days, impose a fine of five hundred lats and withdrawing driving rights for two years.

Ventspils also provided for in the future to install fotoradarus to track speeding offenders. For those fotoradari need to certify the current case in which substantially exceeded the permissible speed. 26. August evening shortly before 22 o'clock found that in 1984. The man was born in Ventspils on the street with a solar car Volvo moved to brukšanas speed of 116 kilometers per hour limit 50 kilometers per hour instead. For such a breach can be punished by a fine of from 250 to 400 lats, and the barring of driving for a period of 3 to 6 months.