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AHMEDABAD: The risk of Covid-19 had made the city police scrap their sniffing operating procedure to nab drunks: inhale a nose-full of breath from suspects. Now, ‘red eyes’ will be the blackand-white sign for cops that a person is drunk.
Ahead of anticipated New Year revelry, Ahmedabad Police are having to develop these methods because they don’t have enough breath analyzers.
Sources in the police department said that the latest drunk-detecting criterion may cause the number of prohibition cases to plunge because red eyes are not reliable indicators of being high. Anger, lack of sleep, and medical conditions too can yield false positives.