Why not? Makes sense to me. It's not like an anal probe! JEEZZ .
It's just some air!

By EX-PAT | June 9, 2009 3:39 PM

Have you ever asked the question, if these policemen/women breathalyse other civil service men/women in plainclothes and or in uniform just as well, or is it a question of nod, nod and wink, wink, your are alright Jack and or Mary (i.e. Military officials, Army, Navy, Air-force, Police, Security, Surveillance, MPs, MEPs, Mayors, Royal Family members, etc), or are these ceremonially privileged human beings above the law, and as a result are protected by immunity against public prosecutions ? Suffice to say, that the common civil criminal law should apply to all persons, races and genders regardless of their position in society, either with or without immunity against public prosecutions.

By Small Brother | June 9, 2009 3:54 PM

"A change in the law would allow the police to stop youngsters before they get into trouble, police chiefs say."

No; testing would just confirm if a child was already drunk = easy conviction with minimal police effort

(a bit like speeding tickets.. although of course, they only hand out tickets because it saves lives, absolutely nothing to do with the massive income generated.)

By osita | June 9, 2009 8:17 PM

Criminal offence is a criminal offence, including driving while under the influence of alcohol, unauthorized public telephone taps, reading private e-mails and postage, and interfering with public privacy, surveillance of innocent public taxpayers even while under the influence of alcohol. The fundamental issue here is that, we are all equal in the eyes of the common civil criminal law (with or without privileges of immunity against public prosecutions). These plain clothes police/surveillance men/women/children (while pursuing innocent public taxpayers on the premise of speculated and imaginary threats, and in turn, securing easy life-time bureaucratic jobs for complacent, overweight, redundant civil service men/women in uniform, followed by full bonus pension, and all at the expense of public taxpayers), and while they try to intermingle into the public crowds (on the sandy beach clubs, or pubs and restaurants, or trains, or public libraries, or public cinema and theatre, followed by driving back to mission control, or home-base, or public areas, while under the influence of alcohol etc.), their covert and illegal activities should be independently regulated, monitored and made accountable to the common civil criminal law and to the public taxpayers.

By Small Brother | June 9, 2009 8:38 PM