Motion
I move that on the next day of sitting this House:
- Recognises that:
a) a report from the Transport Accident Commission found that over five years, approximately 41 per cent of all drivers and motorcyclists killed on our roads, who were tested, had drugs in their system;
b) Monash University Accident Research Centre evaluated the Roadside Drug Testing Expansion Program and found it effective and beneficial, and saved more than 33 fatal crashes and nearly 80 serious injury crashes per year.
2. Notes that
a) not all general duty police officers are able to administer random drug testing to drivers on our roads and have to call Highway Patrol;
b) when Highway Patrol attend, they cannot administer a drug test unless they have seen the person driving; and
3. Calls on the government to
a) commit to expanding drug driving testing to all general duties officers; and
b) in the interim, makes legislative change so that Highway Patrol officers can administer a test on the request of a general duties officer without witnessing the person driving.
