Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says drunk dri­vers and peo­ple who dri­ve above the speed lim­it in To­ba­go will feel the full brunt of the law.

The sis­ter isle has been plagued by a num­ber of ac­ci­dents caused by drunk dri­vers speed­ing on week­ends af­ter fet­ing at bars. In the last month, there have been three road fa­tal­i­ties along the Claude Noel High­way. In the lat­est in­ci­dent last Fri­day, David King and Hec­tor Kennedy lost their lives af­ter their ve­hi­cles col­lid­ed head-on along the Claude Noel High­way in Low­lands.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia about the fre­quen­cy of such in­ci­dents and how he plans to deal with them, Grif­fith said, “We had 36 breathal­yser tech­ni­cians com­plet­ing their re­train­ing on Fri­day last. The sta­tion com­man­ders were tasked with do­ing a num­ber of DUI ex­er­cis­es on a week­ly ba­sis, es­pe­cial­ly on a week­end and fes­tive days, high vis­i­bil­i­ty pa­trols on the road­ways and speed ex­er­cis­es.”

Grif­fith said there will al­so be a crack­down on bars to deal with those bar own­ers who sell al­co­hol to un­der­age drinkers. He said he has al­so ad­vised fete pro­mot­ers and car­ni­val band lead­ers of same, as there are re­ports of mi­nors go­ing to all-in­clu­sive fetes and all-in­clu­sive Car­ni­val bands where al­co­hol is giv­en to all pa­trons and mas­quer­aders with no re­stric­tions.

Grif­fith said bar­tenders and es­tab­lish­ments will feel the full brunt of the law should they de­cide to sell liquor to a mi­nor. He said at­tend­ing an all-in­clu­sive fete does not give bar­tenders and pro­mot­ers the free­dom to give al­co­hol to mi­nors. Grif­fith said po­lice will al­so be check­ing these fetes for oth­er breach­es in the law.