No St. Patricks’s Day checkstops
Posted Mar 19, 2012 8:18 am.
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Drunk drivers had a little bit of the luck of the Irish this St. Paddy’s Day as no checkstops were set-up by police Saturday.
The Checkstop Bus is only available four days a week in Calgary due to man-power and funding; with the schedule laid-out well in advance, that didn’t include March 17th.
Despite no checkstops, officers were still pulling-over drunk drivers if they spotted them.
Duty Inspector Paul Stacey tells the Calgary Sun a traffic unit was still working, there just “wasn’t a checkstop per se.”
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