By Laine Mitchell (Twitter: @Laine_Mitchell)

National Impaired Driving Prevention Week starts Monday

Mar 19, 2018 | 11:37 AM

Drayton Valley RCMP will be focusing on the issue of impaired driving this week in support of National Impaired Driving Prevention Week. 

The detachment will be joining others across the province in doing check stops through March 18-24. 

Drayton Valley RCMP Detachment Commander Malcolm Callihoo says members will be focusing on the issue and will be out checking for impaired drivers.

So far in 2018 there have been nine people charged with impaired operation of a motor vehicle, a number Callihoo says he would like to see reduced.

“This quarter we have seen a higher than normal average, it seems to be accelerating a little bit.”

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He offered some tips for the public when spotting possible impaired drivers, including taking down the vehicles licence plate and taking note of which direction the vehicle was travelling in. 

In the first two months of 2018, Alberta RCMP issued 538 impaired driving violations.

The RCMP are reminding all drivers in the province that impaired driving, whether by alcohol or drug, may cost you your life or the lives of others.

Drivers suspected of being impaired will be subject to road-side sobriety tests that may result in immediate licence suspensions and/or criminal charges.