Police can now detect THC in fingerprints

[Bubble Bags Australia]

Well this can't be good.....

 

Full article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtm...ciprints107.xml

 

Basic point is, that a new technology now gives police the ability to to detect THC (and other drugs) in fingerprints. So for example if you get arrested and they fingerprint your house or car or something you were holding, they can now detect from the oils from your fingers that formed the fingerprint on the object they fingerprinted if you had been doing drugs.

[WantDaChronic]

thats scary

[Rocker]

I think I'll have to start wearing gloves.

Where is all this going to end?

[kiloppo]

holy shit. I'm somewhat screwed now.

[dev0]

officer i just dropped off my mates at their house..im the designated driver officer.

 

what do you mean im stoned officer?

 

*bang bang*

 

sweet dreams officer...

 

 

sometimes i think if we had just as many guns as the police do, they'd leave us alone...

Edited August 11, 2008 by rehanaownsu

[Gee]

i'll be impressed when they can trace THC on the back of my middle finger

[thedarkestone]

Soon they will be sticking things up our arses to test us.

[nugget]

Yup in TAS they've just started swabbing drivers steering wheels for traces of THC

 

 

[brick]

Yup in TAS they've just started swabbing drivers steering wheels for traces of THC

 

 

 

Do they have a legal right to do that?

 

How accurate is the swab?

 

What if you don't have a toke but someone else in the car does and they touch your steering wheel?

 

Australia is fast becoming a facist country.

[nugget]

Do they have a legal right to do that?

 

From the news article:

 

Tasmania will become the first state to give police officers powers to intercept and use reasonable force to enter any vehicle for the purpose of conducting a trace particle test on the vehicle's steering wheel.

 

If traces of illicit substances are found on the steering wheel, the driver will be required to complete a saliva test.

 

Police officers will retain the power to require a driver to submit to a saliva test even if a trace particle test is negative.

 

 

Drivers refusing a test face a $500 fine and 12-month licence disqualification.

 

 

I'm not sure how accurate it is, or what would happen if someone was in the situation you presented