{"id":292010,"date":"2019-01-02T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=292010"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:15:41","slug":"heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-joburgs-new-breathalyser-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/292010\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-joburgs-new-breathalyser-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what you need to know about Joburg&#8217;s new breathalyser test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) introduced new alcohol testing machines over the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.702.co.za\/articles\/332365\/jmpd-explains-how-new-breathalysers-bypass-need-for-blood-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">702<\/a><\/strong>, JMPD senior superintendent, Wayne Minnaar said that the new\u00a0breathalysers will immediately print out their readings &#8211; negating the need for any additional blood tests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new system can be adjusted for males and females and can also account for the age of the person,&#8221;\u00a0Minnaar said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is more important is that we comply with the operational requirements as approved by the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minaar explained that these requirements include a docket containing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The officer&#8217;s statement;<\/li>\n<li>The operator&#8217;s statement;<\/li>\n<li>A certified copy of the operator&#8217;s certificate;<\/li>\n<li>A certified copy of the calibration certificate;<\/li>\n<li>Aa certified copy of approval;<\/li>\n<li>A printout;<\/li>\n<li>A warning statement which has to be given to the accused as to why they have been arrested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;All of this has to be complied with and what we like about the new machine is that a gives a printout right there and then without a blood sample,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One copy is given to the driver, a second is attached the docket, and the other three copies are kept on file for when the case goes to court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minaar added that the previous system relied solely on blood samples which were often not presented timeously.<\/p>\n<p>This meant that many cases never even reached the court, he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong> Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/291622\/major-new-road-rules-proposed-for-south-africa-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Major new road rules proposed for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) has introduced new alcohol testing machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":264967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-292010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292020,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292010\/revisions\/292020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}