Police enforcement continues to remove impaired drivers from local roads
LETHBRIDGE, AB – Members of the Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) continued their enforcement efforts aimed at removing impaired drivers from local roads this weekend.
The LPS says officers took one impaired driver off the road, arrested a person wanted on an outstanding warrant and issued 34 tickets during the May long weekend. The enforcement project will continue throughout the summer.
Police say the goal is to create safer roads for all users by targeting speeding, excessive vehicle noise, racing, stunting and other illegal activities in areas in Lethbridge where people have reported concerns. Similar initiatives were done in 2022 and 2023.
The LPS says since 2021, it has received “hundreds of complaints” about loud vehicles and high-risk driving behaviours on and around Mayor Magrath Drive and the Sherring Industrial Park. Although the issues, and subsequent enforcement, are not limited to these areas, police say the vast majority of complaints come from those areas.