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Premium Content Subscriber only An additional 30 Mackay police officers will receive training in drug detection testing in a 30-day snap course. Mackay Road Policing Unit Senior Sergeant Shane Edwards said the training would provide additional resources to perform high-volume operations with a focus on drug detection as well as standard RBTs. “We’ve identified over the past couple of years that there has been a significant increase in positive drug results in the drivers of vehicles involved in fatal crashes,” Sergeant Edwards said. Sergeant Edwards said the training was conducted ove...

Premium Content Subscriber only Mackay police will be out in force over the Easter long weekend paying special attention to the those on the road. Mackay Inspector Ian Haughton said the police presence would be significantly increased over the long weekend with a focus on impaired driving and driver fatigue. Mackay Police Inspector Ian Haughton said police would be focusing on driver impairment and driver fatigue this Easter long weekend. Picture: Lillian Watkins “For every officer that is working this weekend, traffic will be their business,” Inspector Haughton said. Inspector ...

“At the same time it gives us a high visibility presence on the roads. “So while we will be targeting drug-driving, at the same time we will be doing drink-driving tests and anything else we happen to find when we pull cars over.” Snr Sgt English said following the highest number of deaths on Queensland roads in the past decade last year, fatalities were almost double what they were at the same time in 2020. “The road toll is double what we were this time last year,” he said. There had been 43 fatalities on the state’s roads at February 25, compared to 20 last year.