<\/b>Police from Albury Local Area Command had 19 people test positive to drugs during a weekend random Roadside Drug Testing (RDT) operation.<\/p>\n
Officers from Albury Traffic and Highway Command and Albury LAC conducted the operation using a mobile drug bus in Albury and Corowa townships on Friday and Saturday evening (14 and 15 August 2015).<\/p>\n
Over the two day operation police conducted a total of 116 mobile breath tests and 107 random drug tests.<\/p>\n
19 drivers returned a positive secondary drug test and were issued 24 hour driving prohibition notices. Two drivers returned a negative secondary sample and were released.<\/p>\n
Further action may be undertaken against driver\u2019s following the analysis results.<\/p>\n
Inspector Russell of Albury Local Area Command, said police are very concerned by the large number of drivers testing positive to drugs.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers remind motorists that driving under the influence of prohibited drugs is not only illegal, it is immeasurably irresponsible and dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe message is very clear – driving under the influence of drugs can be deadly.<\/p>\n
\u201cDrug testing operations will continue and police will go on targeting drivers under the influence to try and avoid any further loss of life on our roads,\u201d said Inspector Russell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police from Albury Local Area Command had 19 people test positive to drugs during a weekend random Roadside Drug Testing (RDT) operation. Officers from Albury Traffic and Highway Command and Albury LAC conducted the operation using a mobile drug bus in Albury and Corowa townships on Friday and Saturday evening (14 and 15 August 2015). … Continue reading “19 people test positive to drugs during roadside operation – Albury”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}