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Ministry of Transport

18 August 2024

A new $1.3 billion Road Policing Investment Programme RPIP (2024-207) will target drunk drivers and drugged drivers to improve safety on roads.

The package includes:

  • Increased alcohol breath tests with a target of 3.3 million roadside alcohol breath tests per year
  • A focus on high-risk times with a requirement that 65 percent of breath tests are done at high or extreme alcohol risk times
  • Funding to deliver and implement roadside drug testing with a target of 50,000 tests per year once the new regime is implemented
  • Focusing speed offences on open roads and high-risk locations
  • Performance-based funding to ensure targets are met

The Government is focusing road policing on seven key areas over the next three years, targeting investment towards the highest contributing factors in fatal crashes.

For the first time, $72 million over three years that is available to Police will be used as an incentive payment to ensure performance against speed, alcohol, and drug enforcement targets. This funding will be released based upon targets being achieved.

Read the Transport Minister's media statement here.(external link)