Constable Kevan Kramer of the Prince George RCMP North District Traffic Services is being recognized as the North’s ‘Top Cop’ through the BC RCMP’s ‘Alexa’s Team’ program.
Since 2008, police officers who remove 12 or more criminally impaired drivers per year are recognized as part of Alexa’s team, Kramer was one of the 13 North District officers named to this year’s team.
The program is named after a young girl named Alexa Middelaer, who was killed by an impaired driver in 2008 while feeding a horse with her aunt in Delta, B.C.
Kramer has been with the RCMP for 12 years, his recognition comes after apprehending 136 impaired drivers last year.
“He is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to impaired drivers,” said Corporal Madonna Saunderson, “it is his passion and he dedicates his shifts to removing impaired drivers from the roads.”
There are four districts that participate in the program BC-wide, the North led the entire province with the Lower mainland’s top cop coming in second after they removed 83 impaired drivers in the same time span.
“Certainly by the numbers you can see that he does his job well, he is a returning member of Team Alexa, and since it started he has made the team every single year,” Saunderson added.
Saunderson reflected on Kramer’s achievement stating, “you see so much death and injury on the highway and so much is attributed to impaired driving, when they pull impaired drivers off the roads it’s got to be satisfying.”
Last year, 293 police officers removed an estimated 9369 impaired drivers from BC’s roads.