BENGALURU: City police, who had suspended drink-and-drive checks for the last 18 months, resumed the enforcement from Friday midnight and booked 46 people.
However, instead of using alcometers, all 46 riders/drivers were subjected to blood tests. To decide on which riders/drivers need to be subjected to medical tests, police relied on pre-alcometer era technique: the personnel on duty sniffing people.
“Once we could smell alcohol on them, we took them to a government hospital for the test. Following the doctor’s report that the samples tested positive for alcohol, we booked them,” Kuldeep Kumar Jain, deputy commissioners of police (traffic), said.
Although the department wanted to resume drink-and-drive checks earlier this year, it was put off on account of a raging second wave.
Joint commissioner of police (traffic) BR Ravikante Gowda said: “In recent times, the city has been witnessing fatal road accidents and most of them occur at night or early morning. Some of them could be the result of drunk driving or driving under the influence of drugs. We're awaiting forensic reports on such accidents.”
