kolkata weekends have thrown up new challenges to traffic cops in the city with a spurt in the number of drinkdriving cases a week after lalbazar reintroduced breathalyzers cops prosecuted total 62 motorists including bikers for drinkdriving the drive which had begun a week ago saw 29 prosecutions in weekdays expect for wednesday chhath between friday night and sunday morning 33 more motorists were prosecuted this indicates that we need to step up monitoring on the road with the onset of winter usually we kick off such drives in december every year this time we have started the drive early said an officer however the officers at lalbazar who had drawn up an sop for breathalyzer test earlier are still not happy with the rising number of drinkdriving cases reported from across all the traffic guards cops at all the 25 traffic guards have been asked to start nakas by 9pm we may deploy patrol trucks too said an officer cops on trucks can carry the barricades and put them up at different points of the city he added while jorabagan guard continued to report the highest 14 drinkdriving cases throughout the week the headquarter traffic guard came second however the south and east guards recorded less number of prosecutions despite several pubs being located in their areas beliaghata sealdah kasba and vidyasagar guards made significant number of prosecutions in several places acps have already recommended to rtos for temporary suspension of licences for a few months