Michigan Cops To Use Roadside Drug Tests To Check for Weed, Coke, Opiates & More

First Lt. Jim Flegel at the Michigan State Police Training Academy in Lansing talks about how Michigan State Police will carry out a one-year roadside drug testing pilot program in Berrien, Delta, Kent, St. Clair and Washtenaw counties. It will begin Wednesday, Nov. 8. The Alere DDS2 oral fluid test instrument will be used to measure for the presence of drugs in drivers’ saliva if driving while impair is suspected.

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