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Get caught and convicted and it’s also costly and could include a night or two behind bars — more if someone is hurt or killed as a result.
This counters what the Ontario Provincial Police have seen, where there’s been a slight increase this year in Thunder Bay and a whopping increase throughout the Northwest Region, where it’s grown from 577 charges laid last year to 815 so far this year, a 41.2 per cent increase. “You’re just going to see an elevated presence in December, especially around the holidays. Impaired driving collisions, impaired arrests, nobody wants that for their families. It’s a life-changing event to get arrested for impaired driving,” Carchidi said, as officers from TBPS, OPP and Anishinabek Police Service stopped drivers along Balmoral Avenue to kick off the Festive Ride campaign.
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