Member

As I understand it, at present the police cannot stop every vehicle travelling along a particular road solely for the purpose of determining whether the motorists have been drinking, and, if they have, to require them to undertake a breath test. Of course, the same issues arise with drug-driving. However, with a roadside stop, drink-driving is easy to detect. To be honest, I envisage infrequent dragnet operations detecting my unregulated drinker but also deterring and reducing all driving after drinking—as the noble Baroness said—or at least minimising it. Of course, we recognise that how the police enforce the law is an operational matter for them, but we need to give them the tools.