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Gold Coast Traffic Offenders Program

Objectives:

• To utilise a variety of reality checks and impact methods to deter traffic offenders from re-offending.
• To provide expert information of an educational nature about the dangers of drink driving and unsafe driving for the purpose of detering traffic offenders from re-offending.

Goals For Participants:

• Promote safe drinking levels
• Offer drinkers ways to calculate their BAC and recovery times
• Provide strategies to help drivers avoid unsafe driving, and driving whilst intoxicated
• Realise the short and long term effects of alcohol and other drugs on the body.
• Realise the ways in which drugs and alcohol affect one’s ability to drive, particularly with coordination and reaction time.
• Helping people to understand the underlying issues why they drive whilst disqualified.
• To realise and appreciate the dangers of unsafe driving and / or drink driving and become aware of the realistic consequences of their actions as far as victims and family traumas are concerned.
• To become informed as to the legal ramifications of their actions, eg. potential jail terms and / or loss of license for life.

Goals for the Program:

• To establish this diversionary program successfully and then reproduce this throughout the state.
• To target other areas of need such as driver education for people under 25 years of age as part of their obtaining their licence.

Jeff Togo, has been running a similar program in Tweed Heads, and has seen first hand the benefits that this type of education and training can bring;

"I have been doing it for 10 years, I have had 4,500 through and in that time I've had very few people re-offend. Every year I give money to charity because I collect a fee which goes into the PYCC account and then finances are distributed to the community, being the Ambulance, local Air Sea Rescue Service, Tweed Hospital, youth refuges, etc."

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