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WELL DONE MPS students (from left down) Charlotte Clelland, Franzi Stumpf, Ashton Prosser, Ned Hutchison, Coco Crawford and Madalyn Busst. (From right) SES members Grant Prosser and Ros Fauvel, Community Bank Director Haley Tudor-Harrop , SES member Chris Fauvel and CFA members Anne Beckingsale and Chris Roberts.
Early birds caught by radar VICTORIA Police officers from across the region were joined by helicopters in the last weekend of August as they carried out Operation Early Bird targeting early arrivals to the snow fields. Officers for the operation, which commenced at 6am each day, came from Mansfield Highway Patrol, Benalla Highway Patrol and the Victoria Police Air Wing. Mansfield Highway Patrol’s Sergeant Marty
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McLachlan said although traffic was not as heavy as expected the operation went well. The two day operation involved detecting speed from a helicopter which measured time/distance over pre-measured 500 metres of road markings on
Mt Buller Road at Merrijig. The operation included ground crew for intercepts of helicopter detections, ground units also conducting laser/radar detection within the 80km/h zone. Sgt McLachlan said this was the first time such an operation could be held since the end of COVID-19 restrictions. The first day of the operation was partially
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rain affected with reduced visibility and was finished early. On the second day the Highway Patrol units were re-tasked to a fatal collision during the last two hours of the operation. However, despite these hold ups officers carried out 36 PBTS, five drug tests, checked 42 vehicles with the same number of people being checked. Two defect notices were
issued on vehicles checked. Detected also were 35 speeding offences, three other traffic offences and one car was impounded. The drive of the impounded car was found to be unlicensed and failed to show Learner plates as well as detected speeding at 49 kilometres over the speed limit – travelling at 129km/h in a 80km/h zone. Operations by VicPol such as these are there to save
lives, cut down the road tolls and make sure drivers are obeying the rules. Up to August 29, 191 people had lost their lives on Victorian roads so far this year - up 23.2 per cent from the 2022 total. Rural Victoria recorded 88 of these road deaths last year and to date 108 have been reported on rural roads up by 82 or 23 percent from 2022. ■ Continued page 2
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