Since 2013, drink driving deaths have doubled.
Last year, deaths on our roads involving drunk drivers hit a 10-year peak, with 33 more fatalities than the year before.
Police have a target to test 3 million drivers for alcohol yearly - yet that hasn't been reached since 2014.
Assistant Commissioner of Deployment and Road Policing Naila Hassan joined Mike Hosking.
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