Be careful in the capital as police are shifting into a higher gear in their fight against drunk driving.



“High-Incidence Season” of Driving
While Intoxicated Will Start from This Week
September 24, 2009
From this week, Beijing will show obvious traffic characteristics before the National Day, such activities as gathering, shopping and visiting relatives and friends will increase. Hence, driving while intoxicated is expected to enter its “high-incidence season”. BTMB shall inspect driving while intoxicated at night and noon in the work of traffic safeguard during the National Day, strengthen law enforcement efforts, and detain the drivers caught drunk driving as from today. The civil servants who have been found drunk driving will be exposed through media and other channels.
Currently, the total population of motor vehicles in Beijing has reached 3.854 million and that of drivers has amounted to 5.55 million, with more complicated road traffic environment. According to the recent inspections, the civil police noticed that some drivers hold that there is no problem in driving after drinking just a bottle of beer, but actually, such behavior can be categorized as driving while intoxicated since their blood alcohol level go far beyond 20mg/100ml, based upon the results of alcohol test.
Our bureau will give full play to the sci-tech detachments as well as the contingents for investigating and punishing serious traffic offences, and inspect at odd intervals to make the illegal drivers feel uncertain about the rectification practice. Various detachments are expected to strengthen post arrangement along the critical roads, main roads of loop lines and connecting lines, particularly, to implement 24-hour monitoring on some major catering and entertainment areas, break the routine and adopt flexible working schedule.
The civil police will directly input the names of drunken drivers into “blacklist” database by POS machine, which could help decrease the intermediate links and improve efficiency. In addition, BTMB shall openly deal with the traffic violations and accidents of intoxicated driving committed by work units and drivers, which shall be exposed by the media, investigate the leaders’ responsibilities and particularly, uncompromisingly disclose the intoxicated driving offenses committed by civil servants.
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Beijing to get tougher on drink driving
September 23, 2009
Beijing municipal traffic management authorities say they are to further increase road inspections to root out driving under the influence (DUI) offences around Oct.1, the start of the National Day holiday season.
Beginning Wednesday, all important thoroughfares and ring roads, as well as major dining and entertainment districts in the city will be monitored around the clock, says a spokesman for the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau.
In addition to regular middle of the day and night-time inspections, traffic police are also to carry out a greater number of spot checks at irregular times so that law-breaking drivers could not easily figure ways to avoid the possibility of being stopped, he said.
There will be a great number of people attending different kinds of gatherings and visiting friends and relatives as the National Day holiday season nears, said the spokesman, "DUI cases will peak too."
The spokesman warned that government employees who were caught drunk driving would face publicity in the local media as well as conventional penalties such as fines and detention.
China's population, which has a large percentage of alcohol consumers, is rapidly becoming more mobile, putting greater strain on controlling drink driving. In Beijing, a city of more than 15 million people, motor vehicles exceed 3.85 million.
In mid August, Chinese police launched a two-month nationwide crackdown against DUI following a series of shocking cases in which drunk drivers killed pedestrians.
This year's National Day holiday season, which starts on Oct. 1, includes the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the mooncake festival, which falls on Oct.3. The holiday season will last eight days, the longest ever.
Source:Xinhu
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