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Brant OPP lay charges during Festive RIDE campaign

Brant OPPBrant OPP lay charges during Festive RIDE campaign

Members of the Brant County OPP detachment held 107 Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (RIDE) events between November 21, 2024 and January 1, 2025.

Over the course of the month and a half-long campaign, officers laid 17 Impaired Driving charges and issued one warn-range suspension, which are identical to one year ago but with ten more RIDE events.

Members of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) West Region laid nearly 300 impaired driving charges during the 2024/25 OPP Festive RIDE campaign.

Over that time, OPP West Region officers conducted 1,938 RIDE check events across 13 West Region detachments, with the following results:

·      292 impaired driving charges.

·      19 warn-range suspensions.

Last year, officers laid 353 impaired charges and 55 warn-range suspensions following 2446 RIDE check events during the 2023/24 OPP West Region Festive RIDE campaign.

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