Operation Sentinel
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Police conduct roving patrols of region’s borders
Police have been patrolling the region’s borders looking for metropolitan drivers breaching the chief health officer’s stay-at-home directions. Sergeant Mark Stephenson of the Macedon Ranges Highway Patrol said his team was coming across a number of people from Melbourne metro areas. “A large number of people appear to meet the exemption criteria but there has…
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Nowhere to hide
Roads across the region over the Easter long weekend looked unrecognisable to Macedon Ranges Highway Patrol officers out on patrol as part of Operation Nexus, as Victorians followed requirements to stay at home. Sergeant Mark Stephenson said the state-wide road policing operation was aimed at reducing road trauma in conjunction with broader Operation Sentinel checks…