Ahead of the anticipated Easter long weekend, national law enforcement agencies launched a large-scale coordinated road safety operation in partnership with the Ministry of Transport, deploying checkpoints across major thoroughfares nationwide to curb risky driving behavior and prevent holiday traffic incidents.
Scheduled to run through the April 2026 Easter break, the operation saw officers fan out across the country to establish 56 fixed vehicle check points (VCPs) designed to intercept drivers violating road safety regulations, from impaired driving to unregistered vehicles and other infractions. Over the course of the operation, law enforcement officers stopped more than 5,000 private and commercial vehicles, conducted searches of 500 vehicles, and issued 232 citations for various road traffic violations, according to Assistant Superintendent Stacy Smith, Staff Officer with the national police department.
Eight motorists were taken into custody and formally charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, one of the deadliest and most common causes of holiday road fatalities globally. The high-visibility deployment comes as part of an annual push by transportation and law enforcement authorities to reduce traffic accidents during peak holiday travel periods, when volumes of road traffic surge and instances of impaired driving linked to holiday gatherings typically rise.
This report is adapted from a televised evening news broadcast transcript published by the outlet’s digital news platform, which noted that translated passages from Creole speech included in the original broadcast were transcribed using a standardized spelling system for accessibility.