TWO North Vancouver Mounties are being recognized as traffic all-stars after taking more than 200 drunk drivers off the road last year.
Const. Jasvir Dosanjh, a veteran of the community's traffic enforcement unit, pulled over 130 impaired motorists in 2011, placing him among the top drunk-driving investigators in the province, according to figures released by BCAA last week. He was closely followed his colleague Const. Brett Hakonson, who pulled over 88.
The two constables, along with 14 other North and West Vancouver police officers, were designated by the automobile association as members of Alexa's Team, an annual award program that honours police officers who take at least 12 drunk drivers off the road in a year. The program is named after Alexa Middelaer, a four-year-old girl who was killed by a drunk driver in Ladner in 2008 while she stood with her aunt at the side of the road feeding a horse.
Dosanjh and Hakonson's results were an impressive achievement, said Cpl. Peter DeVries, a spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP, but they were also a sobering reminder of the size of the problem they were trying to tackle.
"It's shocking, really, when you think there are that many people who have been taken off the road," he said.
