RCMP Christmas Counterattack program is underway for 2016
NANAIMO – ‘Tis the season — for RCMP check stops.
For the month of December and through the Christmas and New Year holidays, you will see an increased RCMP presence on the roads with their drinking and driving check-stops. They will be on main roads and side roads, according to Central Island Traffic Service Cpl. Mike Elston. He says they never know what they’ll find when they pull a vehicle over.
“We end up with quite a few prohibited drivers, vehicle impound candidates,” said Elston. “We always get some drug seizures and then there’s any number of things that can come through. And once in a while we get somebody who’s impaired. And we’ll be looking not just for alcohol based impairment but drug based impairment.”
The hard data wasn’t available but Elston says their numbers have been pretty even in recent years.