The Star: July 16, 2020
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Thursday <strong>July</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2020</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
NEWS 5<br />
Thwarting social media aim of<br />
new police drink driving tactic<br />
• By Matt Slaughter<br />
POLICE ARE using new tactics<br />
to catch drink drivers in a bid to<br />
thwart social media sites warning<br />
them where checkpoints are.<br />
One or two patrol cars are now<br />
being put into in high risk drink<br />
driving areas instead of the usual<br />
highly visible booze buses. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
set up on the side of the road<br />
with a sign telling vehicles to pull<br />
over where the driver is tested.<br />
Inspector Greg Cottam said<br />
a key reason for the micro<br />
checkpoints is because Facebook<br />
groups like Christchurch Police<br />
Check Points are warning<br />
motorists where booze buses are.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Facebook page is not a<br />
police site.<br />
“We’re always changing our<br />
techniques. Obviously, with<br />
social media, it gets around<br />
where the checkpoints are,” said<br />
Inspector Cottam.<br />
He said the strategy was<br />
proving successful.<br />
“But unfortunately, we’re still<br />
catching people who have been<br />
drink driving but it hasn’t been<br />
as high as it could be, which is a<br />
positive thing.”<br />
Police launched an antidrink<br />
driving campaign at the<br />
start of this month. In the first<br />
week 3474 drivers were breathtested<br />
at police checkpoints<br />
in Canterbury. Nineteen were<br />
over the breath alcohol limit of<br />
250mcg/l limit.<br />
Bigger police checkpoints are<br />
still taking place but the addition<br />
of micro checkpoints is part of a<br />
police effort to stop drink drivers<br />
from avoiding them.<br />
Inspector Cottam said they are<br />
significantly less time consuming<br />
to set up and require far fewer<br />
police resources than booze<br />
buses.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> booze buses are set up<br />
with the full evidential breath<br />
testing machine. We now have<br />
hand-held devices where we<br />
can do the full process on the<br />
roadside and get that evidential<br />
reading rather than needing to<br />
go back to a police station,<br />
so that all helps at the micro<br />
checkpoints.”<br />
CLAMPDOWN: Micro<br />
checkpoints are being<br />
trialled in Canterbury to<br />
catch motorists trying to<br />
avoid breath tests by viewing<br />
Facebook groups like<br />
Christchurch Police Check<br />
Points.<br />
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