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North Shore police officers join Alexa's Team

Thirteen local police officers from North Vancouver and West Vancouver were recently recognized as members of Alexa's Team, a designation that acknowledges officers in B.C. for keeping drunk drivers off the road.
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West Vancouver Police Department Consts. David Noon and Brock Harrington are among the 13 North Shore police officers inducted into Alexa's Team 2013 for their efforts to take drunk drivers off the road.

Thirteen local police officers from North Vancouver and West Vancouver were recently recognized as members of Alexa's Team, a designation that acknowledges officers in B.C. for keeping drunk drivers off the road.

The program honours the memory of Alexa Middelaer, a four-year-old girl who was struck and killed by an impaired driver in 2008. She was at the roadside in Delta with her aunt feeding a horse at the time of the accident.

This year, nine North Vancouver RCMP officers were recognized, including Cpl. Mike Arbulic and Consts. Marc Belliveau, Tom Cichon, Jas Dosanjh, Brett Hakonson, Lorianne New, Rob Pearson, Paula Penney and Evo Sokerov.

For the second year in a row, Dosanjh was also given special recognition as the "Top Cop" of the year for apprehending more than 104 impaired drivers in 2013. The award goes to the officer with the province's highest impaired driving enforcement productivity.

Alexa's Team members from the West Vancouver Police Department include Consts. David Noon, Brock Harrington, Arman Sardari and Chris Colgan.

West Vancouver police officers took a total of 295 drivers off the road in 2013.

To be eligible for Alexa's Team, officers must have taken at least 12 impaired drivers off the road during the previous calendar year through a criminal charge investigation or a 90-day immediate roadside prohibition.

The 313 RCMP and municipal police officers in B.C. who form Alexa's Team 2013 were honoured by ICBC, the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the Middelaer family at four separate events last week held in Surrey, Victoria, Kelowna and Prince George.