News Release
BREMEN — Five Indiana State Troopers at the Bremen Post and one from the Indiana Toll Road post recently received a new and enhanced tool to help combat drugged and impaired driving.
This tool is called the SoToxa Oral Fluid Mobile Test System, a handheld system that police can use at roadside traffic stops to detect up to seven drug classes and receive results within five minutes.
The devices detect THC, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines, and now, fentanyl. These troopers will be the first in the state of Indiana to be issued these newest machines that will detect fentanyl.
The devices are much like a portable breath test used for alcohol detection. The roadside screening provides accurate insight to help determine if further investigation and testing is needed on a suspected drugged driver.
Indiana has had over 200 SoToxa devices in the field since 2020 that were purchased by federal traffic safety grant money administered by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. Indiana has been at the forefront of roadside oral fluid testing both nationwide and worldwide. This has led to taking dangerous drivers impaired on drugs off our roads.
These new devices will complement those already in the field and will enhance the mission of the Indiana State Police to make our roadways safer by removing those that drive impaired on drugs. These efforts will reduce crashes and save lives.
