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November Page Haltons police hit streets today with annual RIDE program the Herald He prepared to encounter a wave of blue white starting if choose to and drive The Regional Police force part of 1 joint Reduce Impaired Driving vervwhere RIDE program the Ontario Provincial Police and the four other Toronto police forces that comes into effect today Wednesday and runs through December and into January The other participating forces are Durham Regional Police The Toronto Metropolitan Police Pee Regional Police and York Regional Police The Insurance Bureau of and Ministry of Transportation will also he taking part in the program instable Gavin Hayes of the Halton Regional Traffic Bureau unit is coordinating RIDE in Halton said police are on the lookout for drinking and driving throughout the year but the program is intensified during time of the year because the festive time brings out more drink He said police pulled over 291 during the month of December last year Police suspended licenses for hours each for those drivers who registered a warning signal on the Alcohol Level Evaluation Road Tester Alert A driver can either register a pass warning or fail signal Const Hayes said Police also charged drivers with various traffic or criminal code violations during December he added The statistics don t stop there Const Hayes said vehicles were pulled over during 1988 and licenses were suspended because these drivers blew a war ning Another drivers were charged with assorted traffic violations he said Const Hayes did not have statistics for Halton Hills He is accompanying Chief of Police James Harding to todays official kickoff at the OPP headquarters in Toronto Each chief of police will deliver a RIDE related message Chief Harding said he will tell the press that the forces working in concert for a common good means it 1 is a icial program Hayes said the force RIDE van will he in Halton Hills eight evenings this month But not surprisingly he I specify he dates He did the police out to surprise anvont Well be highly visible The hill area and the intersection at and Street area arc- two possible locations where peo pie could be slopped he said first driving impaired offence carries a minimum fine of and a one year drivers license suspen oust Haves said The max fine for the first time of tender is and or a six month jail term time offender receive a ihrec vear drivers license and a minimum day term For ach subsequent punish is three year driver Air Constable Hayes of the Regional Polices regional traffic bureau test an alcohol alert machine that will be used as part of the farces Intensified RIDE program starting today Wednesday I Polo I by Ralph Lauren J NOW AVAILABLE 211 Guelph Street Georgetown 8777361 NORTHVIEW CENTRE AFTER FIVE THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO FOR YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE 79 MAIN ST S 8773388 DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC AW TRENTON 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTRE 8772359 STOP THAT THIEF Stop car 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