RCMP Check Stop statistics

Ponoka Sheriffs, the integrated traffic unit and the commercial vehicle enforcement section held Check Stops over a 10-hour period in various sections of Ponoka Jan. 27.

Here is the information:

• Thirty tickets were handed out.

• Two impaired.

• Two 24-hour suspensions.

• Three commercial vehicles taken out of service.

• One with no insurance and one with no registration.

• One breach of a court order.

• One suspended driver.

The highest speed clocked — 180 km/h — was on Highway 2 near the Highway 53 junction. The driver was caught.

Mountie avoids collision, stops drunk

On Jan. 30 a Ponoka RCMP officer was returning to the police station with a suspect in the back seat when he was almost broadsided by another car. The officer stopped the female driver who had a blood/alcohol concentration of .22 on the first test and .21 on the second. She was charged with impaired driving.

Stabbed in the head

On Jan. 29 at 7:45 a.m. Ponoka RCMP responded to a call of a victim who was stabbed in the head on the 3900 block of 52 Avenue. While en route an officer saw three men walking on the road who had blood on their clothing and it was determined they were involved in the altercation.

The victim was treated and released from the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre, the victim reported he was beaten with a metal pipe.

A 27-year-old man is charged with aggravated assault. Anyone with information can call Ponoka RCMP at 1-403-783-4471 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Clarification on story

Last week Ponoka News wrote a story on working in cold weather. The sentence stating alcohol-screening equipment could become less accurate in extreme cold weather was incorrect. The equipment doesn’t work if it’s not warm, so police will keep their vehicles running so their equipment will function.