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This week, RCIPS officers responded to 36 MVAs, made 4 DUI arrests, and prosecuted 30 persons for various other driving offenses, as part of Operation Winter Guardian. The holiday safety campaign continues this weekend and into next week, with increased police visibility and enforcement, and the focus of the remaining week of the campaign will be on road safety and traffic enforcement.

“The entire community has been shocked by the two fatal single-vehicle collisions which occurred yesterday,” says Chief Superintendent Brad Ebanks. “It is truly a tragedy every single time someone loses their life on our roads.”

“However, I must say that the behaviour we have recently been observing on the roads has been appalling. There have been 14 road fatalities for this year, with 4 being in December alone. Clearly, there has been a deterioration of driving standards, and even multiple fatal collisions do not seem to have had any impact on the behaviour of many road users, who continue to display a disregard for road safety.

“As such, in addition to the officers that are already deployed on Operation Winter Guardian, we are placing even more officers on duty specifically targeting unsafe drivers who speed or drive under the influence, with a zero tolerance approach.”

“Even with the enforcement and educational efforts of the police and our partners, the engineering efforts of the NRA, and the legislative efforts of the government, the reality is that we must all, as individual drivers, take responsibility for the decisions we make once we get behind the wheel of a vehicle. Lives are on the line.”