Police are taking issue with one trend in social media, people using Twitter to warn others about road check locations.
There are Twitter accounts dedicated to letting people know about roadblocks and police are concerned it might encourage some potentially dangerous impaired drivers to get behind the wheel.
“When it comes to speed enforcement, when people are reminded it’s very easy to have a quick look at your speedometer and quickly change your behaviour, you can slow your car down very quickly, but you can’t sober up quickly,” says Cst. Brian Montague from the Vancouver Police.
He says they do not mind people tweeting (other than the driver) if they go through a roadblock and then let people know they are out there without disclosing their location. “But please, don’t tweet the exact location,” says Montague.
Police in Vancouver and RCMP throughout Metro Vancouver and the province will be out in full force with moving checkpoints throughout the night and they say you could be helping drunk drivers if you tweet roadblock locations.
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