A police officer is warning Kiwis to expect drink driving tests and a crackdown on speeding over the festive season.
NZ police Tasman Road Policing Manager Inspector Hamish Chapman said speeding often increases over summer as people are desperate to get away on holiday.
"We are going to be out in force across the country and speed will be targeted.
"We haven't got a tolerance for speed, the limit is the limit," Chapman emphasised.
Bridge questioned at what point over the speed limit drivers would receive a ticket and Chapman said, "You might find at 101 you might not be stopped, but anything over that you will likely be stopped".
NZ police have also launched a new campaign for summer tackling speeding with a touch of humour, where they go over some of the excuses they hear for speeding.
"Sorry, I was distracted by my husband talking."
"Sorry, I'm late for a funeral."
"I'm desperate for a p***," were amongst the examples the police in the campaign referred to.
The tagline for the campaign is "No excuses, we've heard them all".
At a police stop in Christchurch, AM also interviewed Sergeant Ben Rutherford, who said that officers are now "breath testing three times more people on average per month than we were under the old deployment model.
"We're catching more people and people are seeing us out more because we're doing more checkpoints all over the city."
They are now breath testing around 11,000 drivers per month.
While the police get a lot of criticism for wasting resources breath testing people during the day, Rutherford said daytime drink driving is "definitely a thing".
"The rationale for doing them is rather simple, they're actually a road safety checkpoint, so we're looking at more than just the drink driving aspect," Chapman said when asked about complaints over early morning checkpoints.
"We're looking at the driver themselves, we're looking at their vehicle, and ensuring compliance with our road rules."
Chapman said the stops were important to ensure drivers were keeping not only themselves safe, but also everyone else on the roads.
While he admitted the police do not catch many drink drivers at early morning police stops, they do "get some" and deterrence is also important,
"You can be expected to be breath tested any day, any time," he said.
Asked by AM co-host Ryan Bridge for a rule of thumb about how many drinks you can have the night before driving in the morning, Chapman said it is pretty variable.
"It depends on a number of different aspects such as how much sleep you've had, how much you've had to eat, and what your week's been like".
