Police receive six breath alcohol units

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

LINCOLN -- The McCook Police Department has received six hand-held alcohol breath testing units from a traffic safety grant award.

The units, valued at $275 each, were provided by the Nebraska Office of Highway Safety as part of the state's ongoing effort to prevent alcohol-related traffic crashes, injures and fatalities.

"The McCook Police Department was awarded the new equipment to compliment their officer's ability to determine a suspected impaired driver's blood alcohol level," Highway Safety Administrator Fred Zwonechek said.

The portable units display a digital reading of the alcohol level from a suspect's breath sample.

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