If you’re unlucky enough to be arrested for driving over .08, and consequently you are taken back to a police station to blow, you will be asked to provide a sample into an approved instrument, i.e. the big breathalyzer. The approved instrument currently in use in most police departments and RCMP detachments in British Columbia […]
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One day a report will be released on the Port Moody ASD calibration debacle. We assume it will come on a busy news day, or a Friday so it gets little attention from the media. What astounds us is that we figured out the problem in a matter of minutes and then confirmed our findings
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The police in British Columbia are now introducing a new breathalyzer, the Intox EC/IR II. The first one we know of is at the West Vancouver Police detachment. The device performs the same function as the BAC Datamaster, i.e. analyzing the alcohol content in breath exhaled into the instrument and then calculating a blood/alcohol concentration.
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