Cops launch campaign to catch drivers using cellphones
KAMLOOPS – A crackdown on drivers using their cell phones is underway in Kamloops with 37 tickets handed out on Monday.
The enforcement campaign saw officers set up at three locations in the city to watch for distracted drivers.
Not all the officers were wearing uniforms. Some plainclothes RCMP members were helping to spot people.
Tickets were handed out for infractions like not wearing a seat belt, talking on the phone while behind the wheel, running red lights, vehicle defects and failing to display a new driver "N".
Cpl. Cheryl Bush with the RCMP says there will be more of these checks coming from Sept. 16 – 17 at the intersection of 3 Avenue and Columbia Street.
The distracted driving campaign is a joint effort between RCMP, ICBC and the City of Kamloops.
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The terminators are all out enforce revenue generating for corporate PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. its one thing to say its a blitz for cell phones when in fact its a dragnet for ANYTHING they can catch you for and nail your ass to the wall for. this use to be called entrapment, but hey, every war is legal, so why not anything else they dream up? nothing but legal criminals enforcing defacto laws at the barel of a gun.
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