{"id":246158,"date":"2004-11-25T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/bahamas-traffic-police-enabled-to-breath-test-drivers"},"modified":"2004-11-25T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T16:50:58","slug":"bahamas-traffic-police-enabled-to-breath-test-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/bahamas-traffic-police-enabled-to-breath-test-drivers","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Traffic Police Enabled To Breath Test Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the Road and Traffic Act to allow police to have more authority over drivers they suspect of being drunk will soon be implemented.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn January 2002, amendments to the Act were passed in the House of Assembly giving traffic police the right to take breath tests and collect urine or blood samples.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSince then, the Royal Bahamas Poloce Force (RBDF) informed Transport Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin that the new amendments were inadequate, because they were not able to enforce the legislation.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe RBDF wants drivers to be compelled to take a breath test, or have a blood or urine test at least an hour after being stoped by police.<P><\/p>\n<p>Also, they want to be able to presume a person guilty who refuses to comply, meaning they could immediately be arrested and subsequently taken to court.<br \/>\n<P><B><br \/>\nSource: Felicity Ingraham, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RBDF wants drivers to be compelled to take a breath test, or have a blood or urine test at least an hour after being stoped by police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}