by John Vibes, The Free Thought Project:

Dozens of police officers pretended to conduct hundreds of thousands of breathalyzer tests to meet their quotas, potentially saving countless citizens from arrest.

Hundreds of thousands of motorists were able to avoid breathalyzer tests in the past 5 years in the Victoria region of Austrailia because police officers were falsifying tests to meet their quotas. In many cases, when cops are forced to meet quotas, they arrest as many people as they possibly can—but these officers just pretended to do the work, instead of targeting the public.

An internal investigation has found 258,000 alcohol breath tests, which represents about 1.5 percent of the 17.7 million tests that were conducted in that time, according to a report from The Age.

“I’m confident to say that number [258,000] were falsified. It’s terrible. It’s terrible behavior when we’re the leader of road safety in the state. The question we all asked was why? There could be a number of reasons but the main rationale I believe is to hide or highlight productivity. Whatever reason our workforce may come up with, it isn’t acceptable,” Barrett said.

“No one can be falsely prosecuted, but it’s still terribly terrible behavior. The community trusts us to do our job and we trust our members to do that job,” he added.

Investigators caught on to the activity when they noticed how close together breathalyzer tests were taken, making it physically impossible for officers to go from car to car in such a short amount of time. Checkpoint sites that were supervised did not have these problems, so the police force is looking for options to make sure that officers administer the tests.

“In moving forward we are looking into a number of options for improving and increasing our internal controls and accountability in regard to our testing regime. We are considering the feasibility of regular audits, the ability for the PBT to include the detail of the operator and quality assurance in relation to the issuing and distribution of straws,” Barret said.

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