{"id":328636,"date":"2023-02-07T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=328636"},"modified":"2023-02-07T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:41:52","slug":"drivers-face-more-drug-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2023\/02\/07\/drivers-face-more-drug-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Face More Drug Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 7, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Burnett motorists should be aware there will soon be more drug-testing police units out and about on local roads.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen police officers from the South Burnett Patrol Group have recently undergone training on how to use roadside drug-testing kits.<\/p>\n<p>Acting officer-in-charge of Kingaroy Police, Acting Senior Sergeant Luke Jackson, said two of these officers are based at the Kingaroy station.<\/p>\n<p>They will join the two officers from the Road Policing Unit (Kingaroy) who already patrol South Burnett roads.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Acting Senior Sergeant Jackson said there had been a significant decrease in property crime in the Kingaroy region over the past month.<\/p>\n<p>This followed an increase in disruption and prevention activities by local police officers which targeted possible juvenile offenders.<\/p>\n<p>The extra police hours spent focusing on crime prevention activities had led to reduced juvenile enforcement overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Burnett motorists should be aware there will soon be more drug-testing police units out and about on local roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":219645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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