{"id":61171,"date":"2025-12-18T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=61171"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:07:54","slug":"rcmp-continues-targeted-impaired-driving-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=61171","title":{"rendered":"RCMP continues targeted impaired driving enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DARTMOUTH:<\/strong> The Nova Scotia RCMP continues its targeted enforcement efforts to address impaired driving over the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 6, as part of National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day, RCMP officers dedicated more than 783 hours to enforcement and education, conducting 65 checkpoints and checking 5,357 vehicles across the province. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results are a stark reminder that drivers are still willing to take a risk by driving impaired:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Four Criminal Code charges for impaired by alcohol<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>three Criminal Code charges for Impaired by alcohol over 80mg %<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>one Criminal Code charge for impaired by drug<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>six provincial roadside licence suspensions (alcohol)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>two provincial roadside licence suspensions (drugs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery impaired driver we remove from the roadway could be a life saved,\u201d says S\/Sgt. Ben Parry, RCMP Traffic Services. \u201cOur message is simple: Drive sober.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>RCMP officers will continue enhanced patrols throughout December to stop impaired drivers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plan ahead: Designate a sober driver, use a taxi or rideshare, take transit or stay the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you see a suspected impaired driver, call 911 when it\u2019s safe to do so and provide the vehicle description, licence plate, location, and direction of travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s work together to make Nova Scotia\u2019s roads safer for everyone this holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARTMOUTH: The Nova Scotia RCMP continues its targeted enforcement efforts to address impaired driving over the holiday season. On December 6, as part of National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day, RCMP officers dedicated more than 783 hours to enforcement and education, conducting 65 checkpoints and checking 5,357 vehicles across the province. The results are a stark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[52,9952,48,1077,1321,1167,14],"class_list":["post-61171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-impaired-driving","tag-impaired-driving-enforcement","tag-n-s","tag-nova-scotia","tag-pei","tag-police","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}