Date: December 7, 2023Author: Editor, cairnsnews 8 Comments
A major state-wide police blitz targeting drink drivers over the festive season kicked off last weekend.
Why announce a blitz when the ongoing deployment of many hundreds of high-tech traffic monitoring units has never been more intense, resulting in many thousands of traffic fines, raking in millions for a broke Queensland Labor?
Annual Christmas road safety campaign, Operation Victor Mistletoe will see police rolling out traffic enforcement operations focusing on drink and drug driving during the party season.
Extra police will be out in force across Queensland’s highways and road networks in an effort to make sure everyone makes it home safe over the holidays Tragically, 251 people have lost their lives on Queensland roads this year.
This year’s concentrated operations were brought forward a week to particularly target end-of-year celebrations in the lead-up to Christmas.
Police are urging party-goers planning on drinking to also plan their trip home accordingly without putting themselves and others in danger.
More than 20 per cent of road fatalities in Queensland are linked to drink driving.
The Queensland Police Service will be conducting Operation Victor Mistletoe over the festive holiday period until January 25, 2024, involving a range of strategies to target motorists speeding, drink and drug driving, driving distracted or not wearing a seatbelt.
“Queenslanders can expect to see more police out and about on our roads conducting random breath tests and targeting drivers doing the wrong thing,” said Police Minister mark Ryan.
Acting Assistant Commissioner Chris Stream said:
“Too many lives have been lost on our roads as a direct result of someone selfishly making the wrong decision to drive while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
“We want every single road user including car drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter riders, motorcyclists and truck drivers to take a moment to ensure they are all making safe decisions this festive period.
“We have rolling police operations planned across the road networks where officers will be conducting random breath tests, drug tests, speed detection and general road enforcement.”
“Expect to see us anywhere, anytime.”
Transport Minister Mark Bailey has alluded in the past to a probable link between Covid vaxxes and medical episodes with crashed drivers, but the police service refuses to associate it with the unexplained, scores of single vehicle accidents when drivers run off the road into trees or other objects, often in regional areas.
Covid mRNA vaxxes have been blamed for the excessive road toll and the collapsing state health system with many hundreds of ambulances ramping at overrun hospital emergency departments across the state every day attest to the excessive numbers vaxx-damaged people in the community. The majority of these victims drive cars and a number of them crash without obvious cause.
Cairns News has asked previous Police Ministers when police officers will be drug and alcohol tested before starting a shift, just as every other work site is compelled to do under Work Place Health and Safety laws.
Strangely we have never received an answer.
Further information:
Between November 17 and November 29, police statewide have:
- Conducted 29,862 random breath tests and identified 431 drink drivers.
- Conducted 1,853 drug tests and identified 359 drug drivers.
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