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RCMP approve tweeting counterattack locations
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)

1/4/2013

RCMP say social media alerting drivers where drunk driving roadblocks are set up is actually helping the Counterattack program. 

Corporal Robert McDonald says the force wants people to know officers are on the road looking for impaired drivers."It's not a secret.  We are going to be out there.  This tool if it says we are at this location - and we're at this location and we're at this location people will look at the application and say hey - they are everywhere - I am not going to drink this year."

Speaking on the CKNW Morning News McDonald also said roadblocks move constantly during the night so the app will show a number of locations but drivers won't know which ones are active.

Yesterday the Vancouver Police said tweeting locations could lead to deadly consequences by allowing impaired drivers to be out on the road and avoid being caught.


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  1. KenS_7191 posted on 01/04/2013 09:29 AM
    I agree. Tweet all you want. Fellow twits will have a hard time keeping up with what roadblocks are still active, or not.
  2. MichaelD_10 posted on 01/04/2013 01:18 PM
    It does not surprise me the police like their road blocks discovered. After all it makes for a whole lot less paper work.
  3. JamesT_12 posted on 01/04/2013 02:18 PM
    I wake up everyday over the legal limit and by night time I'm usually completely Rat Faced!!

    Thank God for Twitter. It has saved my ass on many occasions!!
  4. Sean A posted on 01/04/2013 06:41 PM
    Tweeted or not, the fear of running into a roadblock, followed by all the consequences, after is enough to make me not wanna drive after a drink. But how about reducing the speed limit on festive nights to a crawl and enforcing the shiznit out of that? At least if someone's drunk, they won't go fast (:
  5. UnemployedinBC posted on 01/05/2013 12:04 AM
    I used to live on a "backroad" and after 2am you would hear them. Racing up the road block to block. Never had a roadblock in front of my house. would have caught lots.
    That being said, a retired "member" (thats how RCMP refer to each other) told me that ICBC dictates when and where. So lots of roadblocks before xmas and new years in busy places. This gets the car count up. Then little or no roadblocks during heavy drinking times with few convictions. High car count+few convictions= successful xmas counter attack. So its just a numbers game.
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