Victoria Police Christmas Blitz
18 Nov, 2008
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Victoria Police are preparing for a massive state-wide blitz this festive season in which 3,150 officers will be assigned to traffic duty in a bid to counter the traditional spike in serious accidents over that period.
Despite the road toll figures in the state heading for the lowest on record, Assistant Commissioner for Traffic Ken Lay believes the action is necessary and will deploy the officers, along with all 12 booze buses, from December 19 to January 3.
“It’s the biggest traffic operation the state’s ever seen,” Mr Lay said. “We know that the next five to six weeks are a risky time for people. We’ll probably lose 50 people on the roads. We just can’t tolerate this.”
To coincide with the blitz, the TAC will spent millions of dollars on advertising across all mediums available to drive the message home.
From this Thursday, Police across the country will also be launching Operation Raid which is aimed at removing drug and alcohol affected drivers from the roads. At the same time Police admit there had been no increase in crash statistics where drugs or alcohol were a contributing cause instead saying fatigue related crashes were becoming increasingly over represented.
Victoria’s road toll stands at 271, seven fewer than this time last year.
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November 18th, 2008 at 10:10 am
how about more doing, less advertising.
millions spent on adverts???????
If they are going to do adverts why dont they take on the tactics of what the Queensland government has put out in relation to workplace health and safety.
They are pretty good ads, and certainly get me ticking, and best of all they arent blood filled nightmare inducing ones.
If they just showed people mucking around at work and coming undone, i would rubbish them like i do the police ones, but the WH&S ads have good substance.
The OH&S personnel that have approached me are genuine about protecting YOU at work.
They arent into handing out fines willy nilly to the individuals like the police are.
Both forces are set up to deal with saving lives, but only the WH&S crew seem to be able to do it with out feeling the need to raise revenue and do it with a sense of senserity
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November 18th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Agreed Andrew. On top of that, instead of spending the $50+k to set up one camera van (flash for cash’s) why not put two Hi-Vis Corolla / Focus style cars on the road just out there driving around? As we all know, if there is a patrol car in any traffic group, all bar the dumbest drive to the letter of the law. No speeding, talking on the phone,no erratic unsignaled lane changes, just smooth flowing well behaved motoring. Oh and i forgot to mention, NO income for the state governments………. :-(
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Frontman,
how do they pay for the focus or corollas??
im sure the photo booths pay for themselves 3 fold.
now dont you go down the path of being fooled about the excercise being one of saving lives rather than raising coin
ha ha ha ha ha ha
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Good work Victoria, hopefully other states will follow your lead. I’m much happier on the roads knowing that law-flouting morons will be caught.
Perhaps getting arrested by such a tough looking woman could also serve as deterrant.
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November 18th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Well considering their high ranking police officers don’t pay for airfares, they should have plenty of spare money……….(woops did I say that??? ;-))
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November 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I wonder how many of their own they’ll catch?
3150 officers!?!Wow! when they want the manpower for something,they can magically find the extra officers.
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November 18th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
NT road toll as of 12 November 2008 - 70.
Same time last year - 45 (57 overall)
Road toll for WHOLE year 2006 - 44(final year of freedom)
Just to point out that speed cameras,demerit points,coma inducing speed limits don`t have the sort of impact as police would you like to believe,in case of NT it was negative.And for the record, increasing population and more tourists in NT can`t have as much to do with this catastrophe as “safety authorities” keep arguing, because even tourists and newcomers are driving at the reduced speed limit and they all should be safe since speed is THE universal killer right? RIGHT? Makes me sick.
Reduced road toll in Vic. is due to much more new safer cars on the road and less use of private cars-petrol prices,until now, that is.
And yes i have seen\been to enough accidents with corpses to turn everybody here freaking white.And did it make me slow down?
No it did not.
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November 18th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
another xcuse to generate income from speed cameras… come on victoria - how about clear marked patrol cars on the road. the millions wasted on ads could have put enough patrol cars and officers out to catch the real culpits instead of normal dads and mums who are fined because they were 3 km/h over the limit. :(
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November 19th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Vic state govenment is in trouble due to credit crunch poor investment, and reducing stamp duty revenue. So this is eaisest way to correct this. TAC adverts are mainly aimed at stopping a voter backlash and obviously policaly motivated.
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November 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Excellent, another focus on (in most cases) victimless crime. I was threatend by 2 men with a brick and a screwdriver and it took the police 30 mins to respond. The bloke up the road actually got filled in and it took the m 1hr to get there. meanwhile a mate of mine did a burnout and it took the cops 3 minutes to get there…. Why? they get money from “hoons”.
HOW ABOUT SOME REAL FOCUS ON REAL CRIME?!?!?!
Political puppets thats all these “police” are.
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November 19th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I was wondering what the fine and points would be if they caught you or I opperating a computer screen whilst driving like the officer in the photo??
Also whilst I’m at it, how come when there are two officers in a car, 70% of the time the one you see conversing on the radio is the driver?????
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November 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 am
Ooooh some touchy evils here, simple don’t drink and drive, drive sensibly. oh and stay on the tram routes in Mel to avoid the booze buses.
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