From Friday, Oct. 10 to Monday, Oct. 13, Saskatchewan RCMP detachments and traffic units will be engaged in Operation Impact, a national campaign to make Canada's roads safe.
This weekend is a police initiative designed to remind people that an essential part of the enforcement job is to save lives and reduce injuries on our roads. In Saskatchewan, the RCMP's focus will be on behaviours that put drivers, passengers and other road users most at risk: impaired driving, seat belt use and all aspects related to aggressive and distracted driving.
With it being the extended Thanksgiving weekend, many people will be traveling on Saskatchewan roadways. Everyone is impacted by what happens on our provincial roadways. Serious injury and death impacts mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, loved ones, co-workers and neighbours. We would ask all people who are driving throughout the province, to "Please drive safe".
Operation Impact is sponsored by the Canadian Association of Chief's of Police (CACP) and member agencies of the CACP Traffic Committee from across Canada in support of Canada's Road Safety Strategy 2015, which has a goal of making Canada's roads the safest in the world by 2015.
