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Winnipeg police hand out tickets, arrests over weekend RoadWatch

Winnipeg police teamed up with MPI to target impaired drivers. Austin Siragusa / Global News

Winnipeg police paired with Manitoba Public Insurance on the weekend of Oct. 20 for the latest operation of RoadWatch, a program targeted at impaired drivers.

From 8 p.m. Oct. 20 through 4 a.m. Oct. 21, police stopped 565 vehicles, resulting in 16 tickets.

Two drivers were given standard field sobriety tests (one of them failed), and two drivers were found to be impaired by cannabis.

A total of four impaired drivers were arrested as part of the RoadWatch program.

On the same night, two other impaired drivers were arrested by police as a result of collisions.

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