Warning over crime which saw over 500 people in Greater Manchester arrested in ONE month

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

More than 5,000 people were arrested for drug or drink driving in Greater Manchester last year. Motorists prepared to take a risk over the festive period have been warned there is no safe level of booze or drug use before getting behind the wheel.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said 5,079 people were arrested on the city region’s roads while over the limit in 2022, with the highest figure coming in December when 536 errant drivers found themselves being taken into custody.

The shocking figures come as three times as many people are being arrested for drug driving than drinking and driving. Speaking at the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) Bee Network committee, chief inspector Michael Parker told members of the increasing prevalence of drug driving. Join the Manchester Politics WhatsApp group here He said: “Drug driving is a massive problem, it now exceeds drink driving, probably by a three to one basis. “Drink driving is now socially unacceptable.

It took a long period of education to get to that. But we’ve not a that period of education for drug driving yet. “You’ll stop people in the streets and as them if they’ve had a drink and they’ll say ‘no I don’t do anything like that – I just smoke weed’.