Changes to police powers
Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
Mathew Sawyer
PO Box 3302
HELENSVALE TOWN CENTRE QLD 4211
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
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.