❓ The Minister for Police provides an update on Operation WA Day 2013, detailing enforcement efforts, statistics on offences detected, and future investments in road safety initiatives. The campaign involved high police presence, targeted drink and drug driving, and resulted in numerous infringements and vehicle impoundments.
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SAFETY — OPERATION WA DAY 2013
235. Mr F.A. ALBAN to the Minister for Police:
Can the minister please update the house on the recent
Western Australia Day long weekend road safety traffic campaign?
SAFETY — OPERATION WA DAY 2013
235. Mr F.A. ALBAN to the Minister for Police:
Can the minister please update the house on the recent
Western Australia Day long weekend road safety traffic campaign?
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I thank the member for this question.
Operation WA Day 2013 was an
operation that WA Police ran over the long weekend. We ran it to coincide with
Fatality Free Friday, and also the usual double demerit points that kick in
over a long weekend, starting at midnight on Thursday night and finishing at
midnight on Monday night. It was a very good campaign. The police put this
together with a view to having a very high policing presence. They used their traffic
intelligence model to look at targeting, detecting and apprehending
specifically drink-drivers and drug-drivers. They went into their database and
pulled out those licensed venues for which there was a high level of
place-of-last-drink data. That is the place that drivers who have been caught
for drink-driving identify as being the last place they were at before they
hopped in their car and drove away.
As a result of this targeted approach, WA Police cameras and
our advanced traffic management vehicles had contact with 485 149 motorists; 21
179 random and preliminary breath tests were conducted; and 205 drug tests were
conducted. Out of these, we have had 157 drink-driving offences and 14 positive
roadside drug tests. Further, 2 116 traffic infringement notices were issued by
police over that long weekend period; 66 vehicles were impounded; and 8 133
motorists were detected speeding by camera operations, and some of them have
been charged with hoon offences. While it is a huge enforcement effort and a
huge enforcement success, it also highlights that there is a very high level of
risk taking and dangerous driver activity on our roads.
That is why I am very pleased that we delivered $27 million
towards the modernisation of our police and speed camera enforcement
activities, and why I am very pleased that we have also committed to two
additional booze and drug testing buses and 48 advanced traffic management
vehicles, to ensure that we can bring some of those offenders into line and
have them improve their behaviour for the benefit of all motorists. I am also
looking forward to the announcements in the budget in August, when we will be
looking at further road safety initiatives to ensure that we can have better
driver compliance on our roads for the benefit of the road safety of all
Western Australian road users.
Operation WA Day 2013 was an
operation that WA Police ran over the long weekend. We ran it to coincide with
Fatality Free Friday, and also the usual double demerit points that kick in
over a long weekend, starting at midnight on Thursday night and finishing at
midnight on Monday night. It was a very good campaign. The police put this
together with a view to having a very high policing presence. They used their traffic
intelligence model to look at targeting, detecting and apprehending
specifically drink-drivers and drug-drivers. They went into their database and
pulled out those licensed venues for which there was a high level of
place-of-last-drink data. That is the place that drivers who have been caught
for drink-driving identify as being the last place they were at before they
hopped in their car and drove away.
As a result of this targeted approach, WA Police cameras and
our advanced traffic management vehicles had contact with 485 149 motorists; 21
179 random and preliminary breath tests were conducted; and 205 drug tests were
conducted. Out of these, we have had 157 drink-driving offences and 14 positive
roadside drug tests. Further, 2 116 traffic infringement notices were issued by
police over that long weekend period; 66 vehicles were impounded; and 8 133
motorists were detected speeding by camera operations, and some of them have
been charged with hoon offences. While it is a huge enforcement effort and a
huge enforcement success, it also highlights that there is a very high level of
risk taking and dangerous driver activity on our roads.
That is why I am very pleased that we delivered $27 million
towards the modernisation of our police and speed camera enforcement
activities, and why I am very pleased that we have also committed to two
additional booze and drug testing buses and 48 advanced traffic management
vehicles, to ensure that we can bring some of those offenders into line and
have them improve their behaviour for the benefit of all motorists. I am also
looking forward to the announcements in the budget in August, when we will be
looking at further road safety initiatives to ensure that we can have better
driver compliance on our roads for the benefit of the road safety of all
Western Australian road users.
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