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WINDSOR:<\/strong> MADD Canada has unveiled a new award in honour of a late Enfield RCMP officer that will recognizing police officers that contribute to reducing the number of impaired drivers on roads in N.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new award will be named the Const. Heidi Stevenson Watch Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Const. Stevenson was among the 22 people and an unborn child killed during a 13-hour rampage by a gunman in mid April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This new MADD Canada award honours Cst. Heidi Stevenson and recognizes the efforts of police officers across the province to make Nova Scotia\u2019s roadways safer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”147″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is being publicly announced this week, as MADD Canada, police services and road safety organizations observe National Impaired Driving Prevention Week, March 20 \u2013 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cst. Stevenson loved her chosen career, and spent most of it in Nova Scotia. She held many different roles throughout her 23 years as an active RCMP member, including as a dedicated Drug Recognition Expert. Heidi was especially proud of her expertise in that area and the respect judges had for her professionalism in court. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She had a passion for helping to make Nova Scotia\u2019s roadways safer. Heidi was one of the 22 people killed by a gunman in April 2020 in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each year MADD Canada will award members of police services across Nova Scotia in Cst. Stevenson\u2019s name who remove impaired drivers from Nova Scotia\u2019s roads, reducing the deaths and injuries caused by impaired drivers. The first award recipients will be announced in May 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMADD Canada works closely with police services and we know how truly dedicated they are to taking impaired drivers off the road,\u201d said Jaymie-Lyne Hancock, MADD Canada National President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are very appreciative to have the support of Constable Heidi Stevenson\u2019s family and the RCMP to help us recognize, in Heidi\u2019s name, the incredible efforts of officers who work so hard to protect Nova Scotians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every year, hundreds of people are killed and thousands are injured in crashes involving alcohol, cannabis and\/other drugs. Police \u2013 often the first people on the crash scene and the people who have to inform the families of those killed and injured \u2013 are dedicated to taking impaired drivers off the roads before devastating crashes occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Constable Heidi Stevenson\u2019s Watch is a collaborative effort among MADD Canada, the Nova Scotia Police Chief\u2019s Association, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice and the Nova Scotia RCMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n