Date: May 9, 2024Share

RCMP step up enforcement with loud vehicles

St Albert RCMP, along with St. Albert Municipal Enforcement and Alberta Sheriffs, are implementing a new strategy in dealing with loud vehicles in the city. This initiative is in response to an increased pattern of these types of complaints received in the spring over the past few years.

Officers will take a graduated approach in which the first offence may receive a warning and/or ticket. The second offence may receive a ticket and a defect notice, with direction to remedy the defective issue with a date to be completed and proven to police. Additional charges can be laid if the individual does not comply with the defect notice issued. The third offence can result in additional tickets, towing your vehicle, seizing the license plate and taking it off of the road until the issue is remedied and inspected.

While this method escalates from education to enforcement and gives offenders a chance to change their equipment and/or behaviour, it is a guideline only. Officers can still go directly to fines, written direction to remedy, or license plate seizure and vehicle removal in the first instance if the circumstances dictate.

Charges can include, Violation Tickets under the Vehicle Equipment Regulations starting at $162 up to $567 or a Court Summons for driving while engaging in an activity likely to startle other users under the Traffic Safety Act.

Cpl Curtis HARSULLA from St. Albert RCMP Traffic Services states, “With warm weather, comes open windows and summer vehicle toys, some of which may have loudened exhausts. If the volume of your vehicle makes it stand out and gets people’s attention, expect that it will also get ours.”

Expect to see Officers out patrolling, or in team operations focusing on these loud vehicles as it has been identified as a common issue by citizens throughout St. Albert.

If you have any information on any crime, you are asked to contact the St. Albert RCMP at 780-458-7700 or your local police. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) online at www.P3Tips.com or by using the “P3 Tips” app available through the Apple App or Google Play Store.

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