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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
To be clear, the 24 hour suspension was never created to be a substitute for a true impaired driving charge. It has been suggested that the '24 hour' has been used to avoid the headaches associated with an impaired driving charge. Right or wrong, the reality of charging someone with impaired driving is time consuming, frustrating and is filled with judicial incompetency. Thus the 24 hour is seen a means to band aid the issue and get a drunk driver off the road.
Further, if you are charged with impaired driving, you don't go to jail. You are released with a court date. In fact, you can drive 24 hours later and get a temporary drivers permit valid for 21 days (unless there's an injury accident involved) until the 3 month provincially imposed suspension kicks in.
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How is charging someone with a DUI not getting them off the road? Judicial incompetence or not, it's just an inconsistent standard that is applied by police officers that are not qualified to make that judgement. In my opinion, this "band-aid" encourages the drunk driver to continue in their habits because they got off pretty easily.