What is the Drink Drive Procedure?
If you fail a roadside breath test, you will be arrested and taken in a Police car to a Police station. You will then wait in a Custody Suite with other criminals until the Custody Officer is free to see you. The arresting officer will explain the circumstances of the arrest to the Custody Officer and you will be taken through the drink Drive Procedure. Your personal details will be checked, you might then be searched and have your phone/belongings confiscated – this is at the Custody Officer’s discretion. The Custody Officer might ask questions to establish any history of drugs, depression etc. You may phone a solicitor but that won’t delay Police starting the breath test process. They are not obliged to allow you to let your family know where you are if, for example, you might be involved with other criminal activity. You will be required to provide two breath specimens into an Evidential Breath Testing Instrument, the lower of the two readings will be used to decide whether you have
