Burnaby RCMP officers and members of the Port Mann traffic services unit were recognized Thursday (April 4) for their hard work and dedication to getting impaired drivers off the roads.
amed to Alexa's Team were corporals Jason Bayer and David Chu, and constables Derek Morosoff, Nathan James, Wade Young, Shahzad Khan, Jenifer Barker and Lewis Polman. Port Mann traffic services constables Tyler Hilditch, Krys Noel, Mike Haider, Michael Siemens, Denis Beaulieu, Daniel Carter and Jarrett Towns were also named to the team.
nst. Bradley Potter of the Burnaby RCMP received an All-Star appointment to the team for removing more than 34 impaired drivers from roads in 2012.
Alexa's Team is a partnership between ICBC, BCAA and the Middelear family. Four-and-a-half-year-old Alexa Middelaer was killed by an impaired driver in 2008 while feeding a horse along the side of the road. Alexa's Team began as a way to recognize officers across the province who "have removed at least 12 impaired drivers from the road in the previous calendar year through a criminal charge investigation (for alcohol or drug impairment) or through an administrative driving prohibition."
"As a family, we are heartened to see that there has been a significant decrease in the number of people injured and killed by impaired drivers over this past year," said Laurel Middelaer, in a press release. "We know that the members of Alexa's Team have served unwaveringly to make our communities safer.
"Improving public safety is a tangible difference that we can make to honour those who suffered loss on our roads ... We thank the officers for honouring our daughter, Alexa, in this notable way and for serving our communities with their excellence."
