Random testing
Sir,—Mr John W. Wood need not fear that New Zealand is becoming a police state because of a few road blocks for random testing. It is not the policing of criminals which is oh the increase, it is crime itself and drunken driving which are on the increase. Where are all these inconvenient road blocks? I have never seen one, yet I have seen a few obviously alcohol-re-lated serious accidents. If Mr Wood could spend just one night at the emergency department of a hospital or driving around in a patrol car, I am sure ne would change his tune. New Zealand has a sorry record of death and maiming on
the roads, and any method to catch a drunken potential killer is laudable, and fully justified. — Yours, etc., - ' P. ANDERSON. December 19, 1985.
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