The North CTSS check-stop conducted during the night of December 6, 2025 focused on impaired driving. (Submitted photo/RCMP)

By paNOW Staff

Safe Driving Week

Police remove 106 impaired drivers from Sask. roads during targeted enforcement week

Dec 15, 2025 | 11:56 AM

They are statistics that display a significant problem in Saskatchewan.

In a single week, police conducting traffic operations across the province as part of National Safe Driving Week and National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day (Dec. 6) stopped 4,446 vehicles. Of those drivers, 106 had consumed alcohol and/or drugs prior to driving.

In a press release, Insp. Lee Knelsen, Operations Officer of Saskatchewan RCMP Traffic Services, said, “Statistics show that impairment was a contributing factor in 30 per cent of fatal collisions on Saskatchewan roads in 2025. We’re in this with you; we will continue to be on the road and test drivers. During this holiday season, when celebrations are a given, simply do not drive when you plan on drinking or using drugs.”

Police with the Saskatchewan RCMP Traffic Services, municipal Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan (CTSS) and RCMP detachments conducted targeted patrols and check-stops to promote safe driving behaviours Dec. 1 to Dec. 6. There were 1,161 citations issued:

• 930 for speeding or aggressive driving
• 126 for distracted driving
• 105 for seatbelts not being worn

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Of the 106 drivers who had consumed alcohol or drugs prior to driving:

• 24 drivers were criminally charged with alcohol-related impaired driving
• Two drivers were criminally charged with drug-related impaired driving
• 34 drivers were sanctioned with driver’s licence suspensions for recent alcohol consumption
• 46 drivers were sanctioned with driver’s licence suspensions for recent drug consumption.

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