Several local OPP detachments along with Belleville Police Service are banding together to combat impaired driving. Quinte West, Central Hastings and Prince Edward County OPP as well as members of the OPP Highway Safety Division and Belleville Police Service, will be conducting Focused Patrols. Such patrols analyze data to determine crime and traffic trends within municipalities helping police services to better determine where and when resources should be deployed.

“The increase in the number of impaired driving charges is staggering. It is proactive patrols such as RIDE programs that are helping get impaired drivers off our area roads”, says Inspector Kristy McNaughton. Through November 2nd , the motoring public in the Quinte Region will see an increase in RIDE programs and, at

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