Dozens of tickets issued as N.S. RCMP officers pose as panhandlers
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RCMP officers in Lower Sackville and Cole Harbour, N.S., posed as panhandlers to catch drivers who were committing traffic offences this week.
RCMP say in a press release that the stings took place on Wednesday.
An officer in street clothes posing as a panhandler positioned himself at an intersection. Uniformed officers down the road were notified of infractions.
The officer at the intersection refused to take donations from drivers and informed those drivers that they were a police officer.
The operations took place at the intersections of Glendale Drive and Cobequid Road in Lower Sackville and Cole Harbour Road and Cumberland Drive in Cole Harbour.
The release said 46 tickets were issued. Twelve were for not wearing a seatbelt, nine for using a cellphone while driving, and 25 for registration or insurance infractions.
Corp. Mandy Edwards, an RCMP spokesperson who was not involved in the operation, said it is a lot of tickets for one traffic operation.
“Twelve tickets for failing to wear a seatbelt, that seems quite high in my opinion,” she said.
Edwards said the reaction to the operation has been mixed.
“A lot of people are in support of this, they realize that these efforts help to make our roads safe.” But, she said, some “feel police shouldn’t be doing this.”
She said the RCMP sees the trial run of this operation as a success and will continue to explore different ways to catch offenders.
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