Two local police agencies receive a new portable tool to help detect drug use

VIGO COUNTY, Ind.

(WTHI) - Sheriff's offices in Vermillion and Vigo Counties have a new tool to help identify drug-impaired drivers.

Sheriff's offices in "vermillon" and "vigo" counti have a new tool to help identify drug-impaired drivers.

The "indiana criminal justice institute" is giving "66" "so-tox-a mobile systems" to police agencies in the state.

They're hand-held analyzers that use an oral swab to detect six kinds of drugs.

The device is "not" meant to replace techniques like field sobriety tests and breathalyzers.

The purpose of the test is to further establish probable cause, which the officer can use to make an arrest.

2:08 to 2:2} "it helps keep people who shouldn't be off the road, off the road.

It gives us a tool to see exactly what they're taking.

If they have to get arrested ebcause they're driving under the unfluence, we'll do it.

But ultimately get them help so they aren't doing that and endangering you or i or anybody else on the road."

The indiana criminal justice institute says much like a portable breathalyzer... drivers can refuse the