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The police officer in charge found, however, on checking the calibration of the intoximeter, that it was not functioning correctly.

Diouf was given further breath tests using an intoximeter, which proved positive.

She is the director of communications at Intoximeter, a manufacturer of devices that measure alcohol intake.

In Mr Warren's case, the intoximeter at the police station did not function correctly and so samples were required.

His first report for The Times described a patent issued for an intoximeter, a device used to measure the alcoholic content of a person's breath.

He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter.

The photovoltaic assay, used only in the dated Photo Electric Intoximeter (PEI), is a form of breath testing rarely encountered today.

The Alcolyser was superseded by the Lion Intoximeter 3000 in 1983, and later by the Lion Alcolmeter and Lion Intoxilyser.

The defendant, who was driving his car in Jermyn Street, was arrested after a roadside breath test proved positive and taken to a police station, where he provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter.

At the police station the accused will be asked to provide two specimens of breath for analysis (using approved evidential instruments such as the Intoximeter EC/IR; Lion Intoxilyzer; or Camic Datamaster).

The intoximeter was found not to be working properly and the custody officer notified the defendant that, pursuant to section 7(3) (b ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988, an alternative specimen of either blood or urine, at the choice of the officer, would be required.

He was cleared by the Bow Street stipendiary magistrate in January last year because he was not given the opportunity to say whether he would prefer to give a urine or blood sample when Vine Street police found the intoximeter did not function properly.

The new code, while retaining the preliminary breathalyser test, provides that the normal method to be adopted at a police station in order to determine the amount of alcohol in the driver's body is by the provision by him of two specimens of breath for analysis by means of the approved device known as the intoximeter.