Lancashire police and crime update 8 Dec 2023

Lancashire police and crime commissioner Andrew Snowden with an update from the dedicated roads policing unit in Kirkham

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00:00 Hi, I'm Andrew Snowden, Lancashire's Police and Crime Commissioner and in this week's

00:04 update video I'm not stood outside or I walk in the beat like I often am. I am today out

00:10 with PC Kirkham with the dedicated Roads Policing Unit. It is a new unit that has been created

00:16 this year to make sure that we have a 24/7 dedicated resource in Lancashire targeting

00:22 dangerous drivers on Lancashire's roads. It is a key priority in my Fighting Crime Plan

00:28 to target those people who think they can get behind the wheel, drive dangerously, drive

00:33 at excessive speeds, drive under the influence of drink or drugs and put other people's lives

00:38 at risk and it is not acceptable. So I'm out with PC Kirkham, we are out targeting people

00:45 who are known through intelligence to be repeat offenders of drink and drug driving because

00:50 we know it has huge consequences for people when we see people seriously injured or even

00:56 killed on our roads by people taking irresponsible actions like that. PC Kirkham has got a great

01:02 track record of targeting those people and over the years Lancashire Police has done

01:06 a great job but even now with this dedicated unit there is more resource out there to target

01:11 those drivers. Over 1,300 people arrested on Lancashire's roads in the last year for

01:17 drink or drug driving. So the message that we are sending out is get help or get caught.

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