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Youth’s skills on show Shymma Harris, of Pakenham CFA, loves competitive firefighting. Making new friends is a huge draw card for Shymma to compete year after year. Story page 3
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were caught by officers. Eight motorists in Cardinia were caught driving while disqualified, as well as seven unlicensed drivers, 14 unregistered vehicles and one impoundment, with police using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to detect the offences. Four drivers were caught disobeying signs and signals, two were nabbed using their mobile phones while driving and six were found
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use and unauthorised driving were the key issues detected by police during the operation. But Assistant Commissioner for Road Policing Glenn Weir said the majority of people obeyed the road rules over the long weekend. “Considering it was a long weekend, with high traffic volumes and good weather, we saw the majority of people doing the right thing on our roads,” he said. Continued page 3
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not to be wearing a seatbelt. Police detected almost 7000 traffic offences throughout Victoria during the four-day road policing operation, following a shocking start to the year on Victoria’s roads. There were 74 lives lost in the first 73 days of the year, which is 45 per cent higher than the same time last year and the five-year average – both 51. Speeding, impaired driving, mobile phone
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Almost 100 motorists in Cardinia were apprehended for speeding over the Labour Day long weekend, as Operation Arid ramped up enforcement across the state. Across the Cardinia Police Service Area, speeding was by far the prominent offence for road users, with 97 motorists apprehended throughout the course of the long weekend more than triple the figures for neighbouring Casey. Two drink drivers and five drug drivers
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