For the fifth year in a row, Const. Jamie Crowston was recognized for his work getting drunk drivers off city streets.
Crowston was one of two New Westminster police officers named to the 2016 Alexa’s Team – the other officer was Const. Lisa Bolour. Together, the pair removed 34 impaired drivers from the streets last year, according to a press release.
Alexa’s Team is a program that recognizes B.C. RCMP and municipal police officers who make an extraordinary contribution to reducing the number of drivers affected by alcohol or drugs on B.C.’s roads and highways.
The team is named for Alexa Middelaer, a four-year-old girl who was killed by a drunk driver in Ladner in 2008.
The 2016 team included 113 officers from police departments across the Lower Mainland and 268 from across the province. Since 2008, 2,154 officers have been recognized for their efforts to curb drunk driving. In all, officers have processed more than 79,379 impaired driving sanctions, according to the press release.
To be nominated, officers must have investigated at least a dozen impaired drivers in one year. More than 2,000 officers from around B.C. were named to the team this year.
Click here to read a Q&A with Crowston published in the Record after he was recognized as part of the 2015 Alexa’s Team.
