The campaign, which commenced on Friday, 4th December, 2020, and will run until Tuesday, 5th January, 2021, will primarily focus on Mandatory Intoxicant Testing – detecting those who drive having consumed alcohol or drugs.

Gardaí will have a visible enforcement presence around the country during this time. Last weekend when the campaign commenced, Gardaí detected 85 people driving under the influence of alcohol and 26 driving under the influence of drugs.

Despite traffic volumes being reduced by up to 70% at times this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a 133% increase in the amount of people detected driving under the influence of drugs on our roads (2537 have been detected to date in 2020 which compares to 1192 detections for the same period in 2019)...