Drumheller RCMP Constable Jeremiah Jones shows a breath screening device used in roadside checkstops.
RCMP across Canada will be kicking off Christmas season checkstops with National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day on Friday, December 5.
“Every detachment in the province should be involved in that,” said Drumheller RCMP Staff Sergeant Art Hopkins.
“We will have several members that will be involved in it during the course of their duties.”
Police say they will increase enforcement efforts during the course of this holiday season, to detect people driving under the influence, and to remove them from behind the wheel to make the highways as safer.
“At the end of the day, we want people to drive responsibly and not to drink and drive,” said Hopkins. The province estimates that between 2008 and 2013, 471 people were killed on Alberta roads as a result of impaired drivers. 7397 people were injured in in alcohol related collisions over that same period.
