RCMP plan to be present as revellers ring in new year
NANAIMO — If you’re celebrating New Year’s Eve and someone offers you one for the road, it would be a good idea to turn it down.
Saturday is the last big night for the RCMP’s annual drinking and driving Counterattack campaign. Cpl. Mike Elston with Central Island Traffic Services won’t say when or where the checkstops will be, but does say there will be increased enforcement.
“There will be members out not only from central island traffic side but also the general duty side in all of the detachment areas,” said Elston. “When we look at central island we’re talking mainly about Nanaimo, Oceanside, Port Alberni and the west coast out to Tofino-Ucluelet.”
As old as the message is that drinking and driving is a bad idea, Elston says a lot of people still don’t know even the minimum penalties.