Enhanced Counter Attack Checked Thousands of Vehicles

Monday, December 21, 2009 11:05 AM

The four-day Enhanced Police Counterattack Road Checks in Prince George, this past weekend, resulted in literally thousands of vehicles being checked. The vast majority of those drivers heeded the advanced notice, made by the police, and made the right choice by finding other ways to ensure they did not drink and drive.

However, there were many who took a chance, and many were caught.

During the four-day enhanced campaign, one hundred and four (104) drivers, impaired by alcohol or drugs were removed from the local roadways. Twenty-four (24) drivers were charged criminally, ten (10) were suspended for ninety (90) days and seventy (70) were suspended for 24 hours for alcohol or drugs. Three (3) drivers, impaired by drugs, were processed and charged criminally, by the newly trained Drug Recognition experts and under the new Bill C-2 legislation.

# of Criminal Code Impaired Driving Charges – 24 charges
# of Administrative Driving Prohibitions (90 days) – 10 charges
# of 24-Hour Driving Suspensions (alcohol) – 49 suspensions
# of 24-Hour Driving Suspensions (drugs) – 21 suspensions
# of Seat Belt offences – 26 charges
# of Speeding offences – 20 charges
# of Provincial Statute offences - other – 5 charges
# of No Driver's Licence offences – 35 charges
# of Vehicle Impounds – 10 vehicles
# of Commercial Vehicle offences – 16 charges / 7 warnings
# of Moving offences – 55 charges / 34 warnings
# of Non-moving offences – 185 charges / 67 warnings
# of Vehicle Defects – 18 charges / 75 warnings

# of Liquor Seizures – 24
# of Drug Seizures – 17

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Posted by: thatsaboutthesizeofit on December 21 2009 11:31 AM

shouldn't there be more # of Vehicle Impounds, something like 104 Vehicles Impounded. if someone gets a 24-Hour Driving Suspensions (alcohol), how's driving the vehicle away from road check the passenger of the vehicle, which if sober should of been driving in the first place or our they aloud to call OPERATION RED NOSE?

Posted by: MrPG on December 21 2009 11:37 AM

It's amazing that they still catch people not wearing their seatbelts.

It takes quite a bit to impound a vehicle, certainly more than a broken taillight.

Posted by: gus on December 21 2009 8:57 PM

So how does the number of vehicles checked this time around compare to other times?

Surely the important number to see whether things are changing over time would be the rate per 1,000 vehicles checked.

If there were 26 seat belt charges with 5,000 checked, that is quite a different compliance rate than a 26/2,000. On top of that, when there are others in the car, the number of seatbelt users or non-users is a relatively independent variable.