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More police will be on the roads detecting impaired drivers as additional training is rolled out across the Whitsundays.
Officers from Bowen in the north to Proserpine and surrounds to the south will undergo training for roadside drug testing.
Whitsunday Senior Sergeant Nathan Blain said the training was ongoing as part of a statewide rollout after the need was identified for more upskilled officers.
“It will increase the capabilities (of officers) in the Whitsundays,” he said.
It comes as two drivers were found to be behind the wheel while under the effects of a substance.
A Cannonvale man, 46, was intercepted on Coconut Grove about 9.30pm on April 9.
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A man police allege assaulted his neighbour during a disturbance has been charged and will appear in court later this month.
Whitsunday police were called to a disturbance in Sunbird Close at Jubilee Pocket about 2am on April 11.
Senior Sergeant Nathan Blain said a 22-year-old man was allegedly at the centre of the disturbance and was approached by his 41-year-old male neighbour.
He said the older man suffered cuts and bruises in a scuffle that broke out between the pair before officers arrived at the scene.
“Those injuries were consistent with bodily harm,” he said.
The 22-year-old man was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm and will appear in Proserpine Magistrates Court on April 29.
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A meth-taking interstate truck driver who blocked a major road when he stopped for a nap has lost his licence for two months.
Mount Julian’s Jason Dean Taylor, 42, handed his licence, and in effect his livelihood, over at Proserpine Magistrates Court on Monday after he endangered other road users in a bizarre incident at Wacol in the early hours of the morning on January 24.
Responding to a call-out to the Ipswich Motorway at 6.35am, police found the self-employed truckie asleep behind the driver’s seat of his heavy combination vehicle, which was blocking the left turn lane to Centenary Highway.