More Men, More Equipment

Reinforced R.C.M.P. Patrols

To Crack Down on Speeders

OYAL Canadian Mounted Police,
reinforced by more men, more
equipment and a new idea in

traffic control, will launch a rigid
traffic enforcement program through-
out B.C. this spring.

Assistant Commissioner C. W. Har-
vison, chief of the force in the proy-
ince, announced the sharply-increased
crack-down on erring motorists.

“Our chief tool in combating

traffic accidents is prosecution,”

he said. “Until a better answer
comes along, we intend to use it
for all it’s worth.”

This will mean more ghost cars—
unmarked police cars and more
patrols will be put on the highways.
More radar sets will be added to the

New Zone Plan
To Check Cars

five now in use in B.C., and they will
be made more mobile.

“There were just over 22,000 prose-
cutions last year in R.C.M.P. areas
alone,” Commissioner Harvison said,
“and they will increase this year unless
some of these measures have the effect
of lessening the number of offences.”

Not Enough

“We increased our prosecution last

CUTS COURTESY ‘‘VICTORIA DAILY TIMES’’

year by 62 per cent. That had some
effect, but not nearly as much as we
had hoped. It just kept the accident
line on our chart about even.”

Eleven R.C.M.P. officers in
charge of traffic units across the
province met in Victoria recently
to study methods of traffic en-
forcement used now, uniformity
of operation throughout B.C., dis-

Mapping strategy in Victoria for a crackdown on accident-causing motorists are 11 R.C.M.P. traffic control
officers from across the province. Sgt. M. R. (Bud) Godfrey indicates that last year 22,000 persons were
prosecuted by the R.C.M.P. in B.C. for traffic offences, a 62-per-cent increase over 1955. There'll be even

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more this year, police warn.

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