Jersey's home affairs minister considers drug-driving tests
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Roadside drug testing kits are already used in other European countries
Devices could be used by Jersey's police to measure whether someone has been driving under the influence of drugs.
Police officers have been asked to provide the home affairs minister with a report about drug-driving.
The aim is to help the minister to decide whether to invest in the equipment.
The minister, Senator Ian Le Marquand, said it was something he had been looking into for a while.
He said: "When I was Magistrate I was coming across cases where people were driving under the influence of drugs.
"The practical problem in the past was defining what was a limit above which you would commit the offence.
"It seems to me the science must have moved on and they are now reasonably confident in the UK that they can do that and if they can, I am delighted."