Prince George RCMP Cst. Brian Davis is an all-star in the eyes of a mother who lost her then four-year-old daughter to a drunk driver five years ago.
Over the course of 2012, Davis was able to get 90 drivers off the city's streets because they were too impaired to be behind the wheel, making him among the 25 most productive police officers in B.C. in that regard.
As a result, he was not only among the nine Prince George and area RCMP members named to Alexa's Team, in memory of Alexa Middelaer, a young girl whose life was cut short by a drunk driver in 2008, during a ceremony on Wednesday but was also named an all-star.
It is the second successive year Davis has achieved the designation - in 2011, he nabbed 112 drinking drivers - and he credits the Immediate Roadside Prohibition program for the count.
While processing a criminal charge typically takes two-and-a-half hours, Davis said he's back on the road in 45 minutes after each IRP.
He equated getting behind the wheel while impaired to turning a car or truck into a weapon and he's found violators at all times of the day and throughout the week, not just on Friday and Saturday nights, and in rough shape at that.
"At nine o'clock in the morning, for somebody to blow .340, .320, .200, this is beyond impaired driving, this is somebody who's absolutely a menace on the road," Davis said. "And if you don't get those people off the road, it's not a matter of if somebody's going to get hurt, it's a matter of when."
In May 2008, Alexa Middelaer and her aunt where feeding a horse by the side of a Ladner road when Carol Berner lost control of her car and plowed into them. Berner is now serving a 30-month sentence after three appeals were dismissed.
Alexa's Team was launched in her memory and on Wednesday, her mother, Laurel was on hand to present awards to northern B.C. officers who snagged at least a dozen impaired drivers during 2012.
Since the program was launched in 2009, she said the number of fatalities caused by impaired driving has declined by 46 per cent and credited the officers for making a difference.
Other local RCMP officers named to Alexa's Team are Cst. Rob Dickson, Cst. Rob Miciuk, Cst. Mike Collis, Cst. John Burns, Cst. Serge Bruneau, Cst. Brent Moerike, Cst. Wayne Connell and Cst. Byran Dunnett.
