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Murcia Local Police begin next weekend, plus breathalyser tests, testing for the presence of drugs in drivers.
Following the guidelines and legal obligations under the Road Safety Act, the General Traffic Regulations and the Criminal Procedure Act, these tests will be carried out by salivary test by Team members Accident Investigation local police who have a specific training.
The agents use special equipment, performing first circumstantial evidence and, if throwing a positive, a second test to be sent to a forensic laboratory for confirmation of the result.
Drivers of motor vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles have a legal obligation to submit to such tests when required in case of committing a traffic violation if they are involved in an accident or during a scheduled preventive control.
If he refused to be screened committing an alleged crime, referred to in art.
383 of the Penal Code, shall be punished with imprisonment of six months to a year and deprivation of the right to drive motor vehicles and motorcycles for longer than one and up to four years.
In the event of a positive result without reaching criminal offense, if no signs of influenced by such substances-lead, the administrative offense is punishable by a fine of 1,000 euros and detraction 6 license points.
In addition it immobilizes the vehicle.
Narcotic substances that can detect these teams are cocaine, opiates, cannabis, amphetamines and methamphetamines.
In the first eight months of this year they have relaizado 120 breathalyser tests performed with 7,088 and 372 positive tests, of which 278 drivers committed administrative violations and 94 criminal
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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