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7/30/2010
A web of day and night Check Stops have the province covered this long weekend.
August is ''Impaired Driving Awareness Month'' and RCMP Staff Sergeant Jamie Johnston, with K-Division, says they haven't seen significant drops with impaired driving.
"We can't have a policeman on every corner, everywhere," states Johnston. "But we have now entered into a strategic intelligence led program where we look at what the causal factors of our crashes are, along with when and where they're occurring. And we are honing our enforcement techniques to deal with those primary causal factors. Impaired driving being one of the big ones."
Sergeant Johnston says as the population increases, the volume of impaired driving related collisions has remained relatively stable over the years. But he says officers are aggressively trying to reverse that trend with the help of the public.
Johnston says you never forget having to knock on someone’s door to tell them their loved one has just been killed by a drunk driver.
"The role of the police doesn't just end with the picking up of the wrecks on a highway. We also have the horrible task of informing families and loved ones of what’s happened. And that's just not a chore that you can get used to." says Johnston, "We hope we don't have to do it at all over this long weekend and we're going to be out in force, in all corners of the province, trying to prevent that tragedy." (td, ccg)
On the Net:
RCMP-GRC.gc.ca: RCMP Alberta - Traffic Services
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