Xmas drink and drug driving

[anotherdouble]

Sussex police just issued numbers, 212 arrests between 1st Dec and 1st Jan inclusive, with approx 50-50 split. Not good reading but I suppose you can’t help some people ?

 

[GB72]

Sussex police just issued numbers, 212 arrests between 1st Dec and 1st Jan inclusive, with approx 50-50 split. Not good reading but I suppose you can’t help some people ?

Considering the tier restrictions, that is pretty worrying

 

[anotherdouble]

Considering the tier restrictions, that is pretty worrying

What they didn’t say was how many were ‘on the way to work’ captures. During the advertising of the dec crackdown it was highlighted that all people convicted would be named and shamed

 

[Tashyboy]

Me brother and his wife was out on her Harley Davidson august time. There was six of them plodding about. They got near Chatsworth house and a guy in a 4x4 truck hit the grass verge the other side of the rd which chucked the truck across the rd. it wiped out 3 bikes. Me brother had his foot smashed. His wife was killed. The driver was tested and has drugs in his system.
Suffice to say it don’t take a genius to work out the devastation it had caused. The drug driver it appears was a couple of milligrams or whatever it was under a certain level so his legal advisors are pushing for a lesser charge.
Am not sorry but any recreational drugs in your system and your going down for a long time Irrespective of levels.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Sussex police just issued numbers, 212 arrests between 1st Dec and 1st Jan inclusive, with approx 50-50 split. Not good reading but I suppose you can’t help some people ?

I'd say that's pretty low considering there was no/very little office parties etc

 

[anotherdouble]

I'd say that's pretty low considering there was no/very little office parties etc

Or you could look at it that just over 40 a week with no office office parties is still high fam

 

[Blue in Munich]

Or you could look at it that just over 40 a week with no office office parties is still high fam

And that's only the ones that were caught, not all the ones that were over the limit. And once you've got one, you're pretty much out of the game for the rest of the shift, get one on the limit that comes back just under and that's half a shift wasted. I wouldn't think that Sussex have the highest number of Traffic Officers, and given that it's not a foot duty priority, I'd say it's concerningly high.

I also wonder what their charging policy is?

 

[Imurg]

No figures that I can find for Thames Valley yet but judging by the number of tweets from TVP it's not going to be low...

 

[anotherdouble]

And that's only the ones that were caught, not all the ones that were over the limit. And once you've got one, you're pretty much out of the game for the rest of the shift, get one on the limit that comes back just under and that's half a shift wasted. I wouldn't think that Sussex have the highest number of Traffic Officers, and given that it's not a foot duty priority, I'd say it's concerningly high.

I also wonder what their charging policy is?

I don’t know Rich

 

[Blue in Munich]

I don’t know Rich

Neither do I Chris.

I know that the Met's used to be, with a limit of 35; 36-40, released without charge ; 41-50, blood option; 51+, charge.

Don't know the reasons, possibly something to do with the accuracy the breath machine, and having been out nearly 9 years so don't know if it is still valid. But if it's an ACPO policy & still valid, it potentially makes it even more concerning.