Road Blocks Galore In RCMP Check Stops

Friday, March 07, 2008 11:00 PM

Traffic snakes its way east on Highway 16 as an RCMP check stop checks vehicles for drunk drivers, seatbelt infractions and anything else that could have kept some vehicles off the road.

Prince George, B.C. - There was no getting out of Prince George this evening, without having to go through an RCMP check stop.

There were 8 such check stops set up on all roads leading out of the City.

(at right, officers check vehichles on the ramp from highway 97 south to Ferry Avenue)

North District Inspector Eric Brewer says 57 officers were on duty at the eight check stops as they looked for everything from seatbelt infractions to drunk drivers. Brewer says they wanted to get a snap shot of what a typical Friday night in Prince George is like.

The massive check stop program wrapped up a week of traffic and enforcement workshops involving officers from all over the North District of B.C.

The first set of stats from the checkstop sweep should be available Saturday morning.

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Posted on Friday, March 07, 2008 11:00 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Chester on March 7 2008 11:03 PM

Will be interesting to see who they nab at 6:00pm in the evening. Hardly time to be impaired if you work until 5:00pm. Or is their time? Chester

Posted by: tinyapplecork on March 8 2008 12:01 AM

And here I was thinking KFC got robbed again.

Hmm...they wanted to see what a typical Friday night looked like so they conducted the check in the evening? Ok...they know what they're doing I guess.

Posted by: acrider54 on March 8 2008 5:25 AM

Talk about a lock down! A police state. Meanwhile drug dealers are doing buisness, homes and buisness's are being broke into. Just a big hassle for most motorists.

Posted by: owl on March 8 2008 8:33 AM

Time to check what a typical morning rush hour looks like.

Interesting. Stopping traffic to get a measure of infractions, at least the observable ones. With large lineups like that, there should be 100% seat belt compliance, unless the vehicle has none, and 100% compliance with speeding infractions.

Posted by: lunarbase on March 8 2008 8:36 AM

There was about 70 officers and vehicles in town for a week of training. They started around 4 pm and went to 3am. It will be interesting to see the stats of what they encountered, etc.
Overall I think it was good use of the freshly trained man power and was a great surprise for the drunk drivers.

Posted by: zoom on March 8 2008 8:52 AM

they got my wife as she did not have her newly aquired insurance sticker yet on her plate. OOOps honest mistake, they were nice enough to put in on for her and away she went. Nice to see them out there

Posted by: Death to Socialism on March 8 2008 9:56 AM

Gotta agree with Acid on this one.

Posted by: lunarbase on March 8 2008 10:00 AM

Drug dealers have been caught driving cars before, at road stops. The cops at the road side don't usually respond to house break ins any way. That is the other division.

Posted by: Death to Socialism on March 8 2008 11:41 AM

Sounds like the traffic division must be over-staffed then.

Posted by: Harbinger on March 8 2008 11:49 AM

Someone from the printers probably printed too many tickets for the cops and this was the only way to get rid of them.

Posted by: misterman on March 9 2008 10:01 AM

bunch of frickin' whiners.