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26 THE RURAL VOICE
"But it's everything within reason.
If I can smell alcohol on your breath
and you say you're just transporting
the booze, what do you expect me to
believe? We have all been around
long enough to know when we're
being lied to," Lapworth says of
himself and his fellow officers.
The units all carry approved
screening devices, which can be used
if the police have "reasonable and
probable grounds" to believe an
individual has consumed alcohol.
The letter of the law in this case
can be challenging for the police, as
the circumstances around
snowmobiling differ greatly from
automotive transportation. For
example. Lapworth and his partner
stopped three snowmobilers on a trail
last year. "Well, two stopped, one
kept going about 200 yards past us
before he stopped."
An officer first asks a driver to
remove the helmet and turn
off the machine, which
Lapworth did in this case. "I could
smell the booze and there were the
classic signs of impairment. His
speech was slurred and when he
stood he staggered."
Normal procedure would require
the officer to make the demand for
the "roadside" test, after which,
should the accused fail he would be
taken into custody and transported to
a detachment for a breathalizer test.
"But we were miles from nowhere so
I had to be more creative."
The man was arrested straightway
for impaired.
Laying a charge requires officers
to do a great deal of paperwork and
jumping through hoops, but
Lapworth says, you hope that the
judge would see that the trail creates
a different situation. "It could take us
two -and -a -half hours to get someone
out of a bush."
That fact is alarming as well,
when one considers the potential for
crashes. Because of the relative
isolation of some trails, a victim
could lie, undiscovered, for some
time. It could be even longer before
emergency crews would arrive, then
still more time to transport the
victim. -Yet, people continue to take
risks.
Lapworth set up radar on a rail -
bed trail last year and stopped two
drivers clocked at 100 km an hour.