Lawyer urged to equip police checkpoints with alcohol detection devices

Lawyer Mohammed Ahmed Taleb urged the interior ministry to equip policemen at various checkpoints with alcohol detection devices so they could conduct the test themselves on the spot whenever they suspect any driver of being under the influence, local daily Kuwait Times reported. Taleb justified his demands by the fact that policemen had recently referred many citizens and expats, regardless of their jobs and positions, to forensic medicine for suspicion of being intoxicated where most of the test results came negative after having been detained for 48 hours to four days. “Many of them [may] sue MOI demanding considerable compensations,” he warned noting that unless alcohol detection devices were used, Taleb would sue the ministry to mandate it to use them.