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Detection is not prevention: will drug testing drivers really make NZ roads safer?

14 November 2025

Police will soon be able to orally test drivers for four drugs. But impairment from prescription medications is far more common and remains largely self-policed.

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Detectives from Hastings and beyond are looking into the potential homicide of a woman who died in the suburb of Camberley last month
	14 Nov: Detectives from Hastings and beyond are looking into the potential homicide of a woman who died in the suburb of Camberley last month... more

Alcohol, illicit drugs and prescription medication has proven to be a fatal combination in a Canterbury crash
	14 Nov: Alcohol, illicit drugs and prescription medication has proven to be a fatal combination in a Canterbury crash... more

A wastewater treatment plant is once again sending a bad smell across Lower Hutt
	14 Nov: A wastewater treatment plant is once again sending a bad smell across Lower Hutt... more

A Mount Eden prisoner who escaped from hospital escort almost a week ago has been named as 42-year-old Paul Rehua,with a warrant issued for his arrest
	13 Nov: A Mount Eden prisoner who escaped from hospital escort almost a week ago has been named as 42-year-old Paul Rehua,with a warrant issued for his arrest... more

Police investigating the unexplained death of a Hastings woman last month are now treating her death as a homicide
	13 Nov: Police investigating the unexplained death of a Hastings woman last month are now treating her death as a homicide... more

A woman pinged for excessive kissing on an Air New Zealand flight's been sent to prison
	13 Nov: A woman pinged for excessive kissing on an Air New Zealand flight's been sent to prison... more

The Police Commissioner's instructed specialist investigators to see whether the McSkimming scandal amounts to a perversion of justice
	13 Nov: The Police Commissioner's instructed specialist investigators to see whether the McSkimming scandal amounts to a perversion of justice... more

A spurned lover and stalker with a violent past stabbed a Christchurch mum 55 times in front of her children
	13 Nov: A spurned lover and stalker with a violent past stabbed a Christchurch mum 55 times in front of her children... more

Dealing with Andrew Coster could add to the mounting taxpayer bill from the Jevon McSkimming scandal
	13 Nov: Dealing with Andrew Coster could add to the mounting taxpayer bill from the Jevon McSkimming scandal... more