How to design and implement a drinking and driving programme pdf ...

Module 3: How to design and implement a drinking and driving programme
Summary of ways to enforce drinking and driving laws
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Enforcement activities should be based on a sound understanding of the problem,
supportive legislation, adequate training and equipment, and a strategic direction.
Police intervention objectives should be casualty reductions, not apprehensions.
Enforcement activities should be intelligence-led and expanded gradually.
Random alcohol screening provides general deterrence while targeted enforcement
serves to facilitate prosecution of drivers who refuse to stop drinking and
driving.
Both general deterrence and targeted enforcement activities should be employed
in combination.
Mobile alcohol screening units should have the capacity to provide evidential testing
and to process offenders at the site.
Ideally, at least 1 in 3 drivers will be screened every year.
A range of mobile screening devices are available.
Enforcement activities should be combined with publicity and public education to
gain community acceptance.
Enforcement activities should be highly visible, rigorously enforced, sustained over
the long term and well publicised.
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3.3.3 Punishments and sanctions for drinking and driving offences
Countries have adopted a diverse range of punishments and sanctions for drinking
and driving offences. Drinking over the legal limit should be one of the most serious
driving offences possible and the punishment should be suitably large, and culturally
and economically appropriate.
Punishments and sanctions for drinking and driving offences that have been adopted
in various countries include:
• Monetary fines, which may rise with multiple convictions, as BAC levels increase,
or with the offender’s income;
• Suspension or withdrawal of driving licence;
• Where crashes which result in a casualty occur, an drunk driver may be jailed for
several years and/or have their driving licence permanently revoked (see Box 3.8)
• Less common and more controversial measures not discussed in detail this manual
are vehicle sanctions such as licence plate impoundment and alcohol interlocks.
Dealing with repeat offenders is handled in at the end of this section.
These final measures assume that a country has a well-developed system for vehicle
registration and tracking recidivist drinking and driving offenders, which is not
generally the case in low and middle-income countries, who are the primary target
audience of this manual.
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