Police look to crack down on dangerous drivers

WEST VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Police in West Vancouver want to crack down on dangerous drivers and are looking into whether the department needs to push for more resources.

About 100 vehicles have been impounded this year in that city for excessive speed, which is apparently a big problem there.

“It’s the Lions Gate Bridge, its Marine Drive, it’s the upper levels highway. It’s all of it, and it is by far the number one complaint that I get,” explains West Vancouver Police Chief Len Goerke.

That includes a Ferrari caught going 210 kilometers per hour over the Lions Gate Bridge.

Police are looking into whether more officers should be doing traffic enforcement to help crack down on dangerous drivers.

“The average citizen is by far way more likely to be hurt or killed in a car accident than they are in a crime.”

Goerke says that’s why he may re-assign more of his officers to traffic enforcement, or try to hire more members altogether.

“It’s a labour-based kind of a conversation because if you want to do more in this particular area, you have to put more resources to that area and then you need to find the funding to come up with the resources in the first place.”

He says this is a very active conversation the department is having.

“So we’re certainly actively talking about whether we have the right number of people in traffic and so what that would mean for us if the answer was ‘no’, is that we’d need to go to council and ask for funding for additional police officers to staff up our traffic section.”

Click here to listen to Tim James’ full interview with Police Chief Len Goerke, on this week’s Ask the Chief.

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