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Police flyer squad Hastings trials campaign to make drink drivers think
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By Keith Platt POLICE at Hastings have launched a campaign to “have a conversation” with drinking drivers before they get behind the wheel. “It’s all about changing driver behaviour,” Senior Sergeant Michael Lamb said. The “conversation” is printed on a flyer being placed under windscreen wipers of cars parked outside hotels and sporting clubs in Hastings, Baxter and Somerville. The results of Operation Be Warned will be assessed before it is rolled out to the rest of the peninsula, Senior Sergeant Lamb said. “It’s all about being able to have a conversation with a driver at a very critical time and before they makes a decision,” he said. The flyer tucked under wiper blades
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reads in part: “Your car has been observed by local police parked in the vicinity of licensed premises. How much have you had to drink? Should you be driving?” It goes on to list such risks of drink driving as death, killing someone else, going to jail, losing a job, licence and money as well as “public humiliation”. The flyer ends with the advice “If you are unsure, don’t drive”. Senior Sergeant Lamb said the operation had the support of the Kings Creek and Western Port hotels, the Somerville Hotel and Baxter Tavern “because they don’t want their customers drinking and driving”. “We want to stop bad choices and change driver behaviour by having them make other arrangements if they’ve been drinking too much.” Continued Page 2
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