“But it still tells me we have seven people that are out there, ready to run the gauntlet, which is not pleasing,” she said.
“We had a total of 143 offences over the operation period.
“One of those intercepts was at a preliminary breath testing site in Ararat. Our satellite police – not the ones who are on the line but the ones who float around nearby – saw a car take off, obviously trying to avoid the preliminary breath-testing site.
“We intercepted him, a 31-year-old male from Ararat, a probationary driver, and he blew 0.04. As we know, probationary drivers are meant to be double zero, so he copped a $509 fine and lost his licence, which is disqualified for three months.
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“The message there is, it’s not always just when we have statewide traffic operations, the police will always be out and about.
“You can’t avoid us.”
Road Policing Assistant Commissioner Glenn Weir said time and time again, police continued to detect far too many people disregarding road rules and taking unnecessary risks on the roads.
“So many drivers continue to think that if they speed, they won’t be detected, and yet we have caught 2900 speeding drivers statewide over five days,” he said.
“The message is simple – if you don’t speed, you won’t be fined.”
More than 6600 offences were detected by police statewide during the operation, which had a focus on speeding and impaired drivers.
One in every 465 drivers who were breath-tested were caught over the legal alcohol limit, with 234 drink-driving offences detected from 108,910 preliminary breath-tests.
A further 135 drug-driving offences were detected from 3079 roadside drug tests – a strike rate of one in every 22 drivers testing positive to drugs.
The majority of offences detected were for speeding, with 79 per cent of drivers caught speeding between 10kmh and 25km over the speed limit.
Police also caught 459 unauthorised drivers, using automatic number plate recognition technology to detect disqualified, suspended and unlicenced drivers illegally using the roads.
Superintendent McCrory said police would continue to conduct road safety operations.
“We will continue to be out there,” she said.
“We’ll continue to target those people who are doing the wrong thing on our roads. We’ve got to all take responsibility for our driving behaviour.”
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