RCMP members will be out in force this coming weekend to help keep highways and roads safe from impaired drivers with a Checkstop blitz involving hundreds of personnel all over Alberta.
Working as part of the Canada-wide National Day of Enforcement, a campaign dedicated to keep impaired drivers off the road, police officers will be conducting road-side sobriety tests on drivers.
Officials say the tests could result in immediate licence suspensions and criminal charges.
Inspector Steve Daley, acting Officer-in-Charge of Alberta RCMP Traffic Services says that the early Checkstop date will show Albertans the importance of driving sober.
So far in 2016, the Alberta RCMP and Alberta Sheriffs have issued over 1,600 licence suspensions for impaired driving.
The RCMP has also charged 3,836 adults and 44 youth with impaired driving offences, including 11 with impaired driving causing death and 29 with impaired driving causing bodily harm.
Those numbers are expected to rise as more investigations into specific incidents are concluded.
The Checkstop will be running all through the weekend in local detachment areas and on major roadways across the province.
Some of the locations will also be able to move to different locations in the province in order to cover as much area as possible.
