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Kyla Lee was on CBC’s BC Almanac to discuss her victory in a BC Supreme Court appeal that effectively renders all 24-hour driving prohibitions for suspected drug-impaired driving issued not at the roadside illegal.
She said the ruling was going to have a “very significant impact”.
“Historically what we have seen,” Ms Lee said. “Is police officers detaining somebody at the roadside, conducting an investigation and forming their grounds to believe that they have a drug in their system and then taking them to the police detachment for further evidential drug testing and then serve the prohibition at the end of that interaction.
“The court decision today said that police are not permitted to serve the prohibition to a driver anywhere other than right there and then at the roadside.”
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