BASED ON THE 2010 Holden Commodore VE Omega Ute, Victoria Police and Holden have today launched the force’s new divisional van, scheduled to hit the road from November.

With 200 ‘divvy’ vans to join the police force’s fleet, the purpose-built cars will eventually supersede all 160 of Victoria’s existing vans, adding an additional 40 cars [...]

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POLICE IN MELBOURNE have caught 14 drink-drivers in an operation aimed at motorists who try to avoid booze buses by using back streets.

The blitz in the inner suburb of St Kilda, found one in every 33 drivers tested were over the legal limit. A 27 year-old St Kilda man blew the [...]

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FOLLOWING last month’s Operation Ardent, the Geelong and Brimbank districts became the focus of police attention for Operation Ardent II, conducted over the weekend.

More than 30 police vehicles and four booze buses were engaged in the three day-long blitz. Over the period of the operation, more than 1000 offences were recorded.

Of [...]

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OPERATION ARDENT II kicked off overnight, with Victoria Police issuing 94 penalty notices in an 8-hour blitz on Melbourne roads in and around the city.
Targeting speeding motorists and drink drivers, 25 police officers in marked and unmarked cars and motorcycles blitzed the Westgate Freeway, Bolte Bridge and the surrounding CityLink roads and CBD arterial [...]

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VICTORIA POLICE has urged motorists to keep valuables away from the eyes of opportunistic thieves, as latest figures show that loose change and GPS units are some of the most commonly stolen items from parked cars.

However, while 7860 cash-related car break-ins were recorded over the past 12 months, by far the most popular targets for [...]

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DAY ONE of Victoria Police’s three-day Operation Ardent blitz saw 216 motorists nabbed, with 14 charged with exceeding the alcohol limit - the worst offender being a P-plater who blew a 0.206 reading. A total of 3472 breath tests were conducted.

Of the 216 motorists caught breaking the law, 85 were nabbed for speeding - [...]

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MEMBERS OF VICTORIA’S POLICE force have been spotted motoring around Melbourne’s roads in a 7.5-tonne armoured vehicle, which may be used by the force’s elite Special Operations Group to respond to potential terrorist threats or armed sieges.

The vehicle is an Armet Balkan Mk7, a tactical response vehicle that can carry up to 10 people in [...]

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TWITTER, the social networking ‘micro-blogging’ website which has quickly built momentum among internet dwellers, now counts Victoria Police among its users.

Victoria’s top traffic cop, Deputy Commissioner Ken Lay, announced today that he would begin ‘tweeting’ about the bad behaviour of motorists nabbed across Victoria tonight, coinciding with Operation Ardent.

Operation Ardent, a three-day blitz focusing [...]

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Victoria Police will be keeping a close eye on pedestrians, cyclists and motocyclists in Melbourne’s CBD from tomorrow until Friday, and will be issuing on-the-spot fines to anyone caught flouting road rules.

Crossing the road against a red light will earn you a $57 fine, while riding a pushbike on the footpath will see you slugged [...]

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Victoria Police yesterday began trialling a new vehicle-mounted camera capable of scanning up to 700 passing vehicles in an hour, with the trial so far leading to the identification of three banned drivers per hour.

The camera system automatically scans and identifies vehicles registered to disqualified or suspended drivers quickly enough for police officers stationed [...]

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Police road safety blitzes during holiday periods are pretty much ‘a given’ these days, but despite our nation’s law enforcers constantly reminding us to drive safely, motorists in holiday mode continue to flout road rules and common sense.

The national death toll for the Easter long weekend officially stands at 15, with Victoria experiencing just one [...]

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In an effort to deter drivers from running red lights and speeding through intersections, the Victoria Police have installed an extra 30 red light cameras across much of Melbourne.

The new cameras will operate on existing red light camera sites, but will be permanent replacements for cameras that are currently operated on a rotating basis. They [...]

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