4000 drivers screened in Victorian Police operation
May 11, 2009 by Matt Brogan
As part of an on-going Police operation in Victoria, nearly 4000 drivers in the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston were screened for drugs and alcohol on Friday and Saturday nights.
Police caught 11 drivers under the influence as part of Operation Boags 4 which also tested vehicles for harmful levels of smoke and/or noise with the help of the EPA.
Drivers in breach of license suspensions, those with unregistered and unroadworthy cars and almost 40 taxis were also put off the road during the blitz.
The operation netted Victorian coffers over $150,000 in fines.
“When affected by alcohol, drivers are more likely to speed and also less likely to wear a seatbelt, both of which can have an enormous impact on the seriousness of any collision they may have,” said the officer in charge, Constable Glenn Young. “Drivers who do break the law can expect to face severe financial penalties as well as the loss of their licence.”
Source: Herald-Sun
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*****PRIMO!*****
Good nights work, and nice little earner.
If it means getting drug-heads off the road and also old clunkers WE are all for it.
Should be done EVERY single day/night till the message sinks in
Cheers
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I’d be interested to know what James Boags Brewery thinks of its name being associated with a police operation to catch drink drivers. Maybe operation bogan would have been a better name?
gettin drug and alc off the streets im all for!…..
but this bullshit about harmful smoke and emmisions and noise… since wen is a cars noise HARMFUL!!…. they say 90db, which is only slightly above stock!…. it aint goin to hurt anyones ears, its all revenue raising!…..
how is a person who has a passion for cars, puts a nice exhaust on the car and an intake a criminal… coz they sure as hell get treated like them!….
Isn’t it a good thing when police do do this it shows that they are doing their jobs and making our roads safer, here in South Africa I wish they did more we have such a high road accident rate with even higher number of deaths.