Changes to police powers

Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
Mathew Sawyer
PO Box 3302
HELENSVALE TOWN CENTRE QLD 4211
Total Signatures - 404
Sponsoring Member: Alex Douglas MP
Posting Date: 25/11/2010
Tabled Date: 25/11/2010
Responded By: Hon Neil Roberts MP on 20/12/2010
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

The petition of Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House that police are able to charge a person, then subsequently have them convicted for being drunk in public, without a breathalyser test.  Regardless of a person's claim of soberness and request to be breathalysed, no breathalyser test is a lawful requirement of the charge.

 

Your petitioners therefore request the House to change legislation to make it compulsory to breathalyse a person prior to arresting them on alcohol-related charges.