The Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan unit issued 795 tickets and 704 warnings were handed out over the long weekend.

They were targeting unsafe behaviour like speeding, aggressive driving, impaired driving, distracted driving and improper seat belt use.

Between June 30 at 5 p.m. and July 3 at 11:59 p.m., CTSS officers removed 14 impaired drivers from the road. Two were charged with impaired driving under the Criminal Code and 12 were issued driver’s license suspensions for having a blood alcohol content between .04 to .08 or drug impairment.

There were 404 speeding tickets, 40 cellphone use tickets, 39 seatbelt infractions, 45 tickets for invalid registration which included 35 for vehicles and 10 for trailers and 42 vehicle defect inspect notices were issued.

Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan (CTSS) is a province-wide traffic enforcement unit consisting of members from the RCMP and municipal police services, funded by the Government of Saskatchewan and SGI.