 This is, as we enter into our national road safety phase, it's phase two of our operation. It's an operation in which police services all around Australia and New Zealand join in. It's called Operation Crossroads. And of course, what we intend to focus on this year, during that operation, in fact, all four phases of our operation across the Christmas period, beginning 7 December through to when school returns on the 23rd, 24th of January, is of course our fatal four causes of road crashes and deaths on our roads. And that of course is a drink driving, driving whilst tired, driving whilst unrestrained and of course speeding. The additional issue or factor that we'll be looking at this year will of course be dangerous operation of motor vehicles, otherwise known as dangerous driving. And that will be a tantamount to our enforcement campaign this year. So there's really five things that we're looking at. What we're hoping to do is try to limit the death and injury on our roads. Christmas, New Year period is a time of celebration, a time for families. But I can tell you that law enforcement officers, our emergency service officers and of course our doctors and nurses hold their collective breath at this time of year, hoping that the death and injury on our road will be as low as possible. I'm ready to take any questions you might have. We would like to think that the road safety message is getting through, but it's one of the things that we need to continually work at. We have to continue to reinforce the fatal four, the not drinking, driving, not driving whilst tired, not speeding and ensuring that seat belts are worn at all times. It's a message that we hope is getting through. And we particularly like to think that at this time of year, it's a time of year that is supposed to be a time of celebration, a time of family and a time of friends. I think when we get into our motor cars, we need to remember that. If we could treat people on the roads as though they were part of our family or part of our friend circle, I think that we would have a much more considerate, a much more thoughtful motor in public. And I think if we did that, we would see considerable decreases in our road toll, both our fatalities and our injury accidents. And if the campaign seems to be getting away from road carnage and bloody years to one of them trying to get people just to be more courteous, is that going to be more effective or what's the reasoning behind that? Well, one of the things that we notice and we recognise is that incivility on the roads and frustration and lack of patience on the roads certainly leads to people making poor decisions. And of course those poor decisions can have quite fatal consequences and quite serious consequences. So we are very keen to ensure that people try to be as courteous as they can with each other. I think another important aspect to this is that many of the people using our road networks over the Christmas holiday period are not local people. We have a lot of people who come from interstate and in fact from overseas as well as other parts of the state of Queensland. And so there's a lot of people out there driving around quite unfamiliar with our roads. So it is really important that we extend people the courtesy. They may not be from here. They may not be used to driving on the roads each day. So that little bit of extra courtesy will go a very long way. Can you put that, well, poor road rage down to anything in particular? I mean is it traffic congestion? Is it poor roads? Is there any reason for it? It's difficult to put your finger on it. It is definitely frustration. And I'm sure that there are a number of factors that would lead to that. Congestion would be one. There's also a desire that people get from Point A to Point B quickly, particularly at this time of year. People are really trying to get to friends and family, etc. And that can be a source of frustration if that progress is impeded in any way. But what we really need to do is encourage people just to take your time and slow down. An extra five minutes isn't going to hurt. It's not going to hurt anybody. But trying to cut an extra five minutes off your trip might very well hurt. Somebody might in fact lead to a fatality. And do you have its Phase 2 different to Phase 1? Are there more officers? Well, the difference is that we add an extra criteria to our road safety campaign, which is the dangerous operation of motor vehicles, dangerous driving. So we have strategies in place to deal with that specific type of threat to our road safety. But I think the important part with Phase 2 is the fact that this is a united operation and it includes police jurisdictions from all the other states and across the Tasman. So we are, this really is, I guess, a statement from law enforcement that we will focus very steadily, very strongly on road safety over this particular period. Phase 2, as you know, covers the actual Christmas and New Year days. So they are the days that we really focus on. It's a terrible time to lose a family member or a friend on the road at any time. But over Christmas and New Year, a time that is supposed to be one of celebration and getting together with family, it must be utterly traumatic for family members and friends. We know the roadtile was 19 more compared to this time last year. Off the top of your head, do you know how many people died as in Phase 2 last year? In Phase 2 last year there were five fatalities on our roads, five people were killed. We are hoping that we can reduce that. I've got to stress that that actually was a good year in terms of numbers. It's tragic here for anybody that's killed, but good years in terms of numbers. Can I tell you though that we are optimistic but certainly not complacent about the fact that in Phase 1 of our operation, which began on the 23rd of, I beg your pardon, which began on the 8th of this month, we had less deaths on the road than we did for the same period last year. Last year for Phase 1 of our operation there were 16 deaths on our roads. This year there was only 10. Now say only 10, and as you know the statistics are one thing, but the trauma and the suffering from people involved in those traffic accidents of course is quite considerable. So there is some optimism, but we all need to ensure that we don't become complacent. We need to focus on our driving. We need to ensure that we are concentrating on what we're doing and of course above all being courteous and applying the road rules. So when is Phase 2 officially started? Is it like four o'clock this afternoon until when? Well it actually starts at, it started at one minute past midnight this morning and it will run through until the 8th of January. Is that the national campaign? Is Phase 2 actually mean for drivers on the road? I think drivers on the road will see an increased police presence. We are mobilising all the resources that we have available to us to ensure that we have a strong police presence. This is a very strong enforcement phase of the operation and this is a time when we will be focusing on those motorists who are not complying with the road rules and of course I think the difference that people will see will be the volume of the actual frequency with which police cars pass them and they see police officers attending to traffic enforcement duties. Is that how you're hoping to... Yes. No that's right, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle is the sort of thing that requires some fairly skillful police tactics. Obviously for obvious reasons I can't go into precisely what those tactics will be but it's the type of operation that requires police to be on scene, to be observing, either physically or electronically and to intercept vehicles that are participating in dangerous driving behaviour. So can we expect a lot more unmarked police cars of different varieties of what we normally see on the road? Like different model cars? We have a range of different models, different makes both covert and overt and all the resources that we have available to us will be mobilised over this coming Christmas New Year period. Wouldn't you say electronically but... Yeah well there are a range of means by which we are able to track and vector in on people who have a propensity to drive dangerously and also to vector in on acts of dangerous driving so whilst I wouldn't go into the details we can say that all the resources that we have available to us will be used. Is there more, is there going to be higher penalties or just a merit points for those who are dangerously driving? Well dangerous driving is a different category of offence it's not an offence for which a person gets a ticket or points it's an offence for which people have to appear before the court and that can involve the loss of licence, substantial period of substantial fine or substantial period of imprisonment so it works a little differently but it is viewed very seriously by the courts and certainly very seriously by the police. Do you have a view that you can express on double demerit points at this time of year? Well you may be aware that we actually do have double demerit points in Queensland already the double demerit points work in terms of speeding and failing to wear a motorcycle helmet and other offences where the offender is intercepted twice within a 12 month period for that offence so two interceptions of those types of offences lead to double demerit points the next time around so it is something that we already have in Queensland. But not for an individual incident like in New South Wales? No. Any idea then you fix the cameras sorry the point of the cameras were turned on this week any idea how many people have been caught speeding through there? Yes on the first day now there is a delay it's a normal processing delay between when the detection occurs and when the information about the detection is transmitted back to a central point here in Brisbane and then the information is downloaded so there is usually a delay I can tell you on the first day of operation which was on Wednesday from midnight on there were 16 people detected in what we refer to as point to point mode and that is the distance between the two cameras and the time it takes to get there but the cameras also work in point in time mode which means it works like any other type of traffic camera so it can record speed as the motorist passes that camera spot and on the first day of operation four motorists were detected in that way so all up 20 for that site and the next day was very similar numbers it works out to about 0.48 per thousand cars that go past so I think that's a very good thing when we conducted the trial out there and had the cameras in operation the rate of offending or the rate of detections was much higher than that but as we've seen with all other camera systems that we have so far installed the rate of detection falls significantly over time as people become aware of the fact that they exist and our point to point camera I think is no exception people are aware of that the advantage of course with point to point camera is that it focuses the attention of the driver over a much greater period of time in this case 14.6 kilometres in the Glasshouse Mountain site so it encourages motorists to focus on their speed over a long period of time not simply at point in time when they pass a camera that might operate just throw it last there's a Gold Coast operation last night with drug and alcohol detection units I've not had any data about that yet