240 drug-drivers weeded out
Date published: 03 March 2016
NONE for the road . . . Sgt John Brennan with roadside drug drive testing kit
GREATER Manchester Police caught 240 drug-drivers in nine months following the introduction of new legislation.
Laws that set limits for 17 legal and illegal drugs and made it easier for officers to detect drug-drivers were introduced in March 2015. Between then and December, police arrested 365 drug-drivers in Greater Manchester, 240 of whom tested positive.
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