Wyndham police are “extremely disappointed” with motorists who carry unrestrained children in their car.
Police say they spotted two unrestrained children, including one in a front footwell, in Point Cook during Operation Ouroboros on Sunday.
The two-week operation is targeting drink drivers in the area.
Police are warning parents of the dangers of not placing children in child seats or ensuring they are wearing seat belts.
The first child was discovered by police about 4.30am.
Police say that as a car drove through a booze bus site, they noticed a child who appeared to be under two years old on a woman’s lap in the rear
seat.
When police approached the car, the child was placed in the footwell.
A Perth woman, 37, was fined $332 for not wearing a seatbelt.
The car’s driver, a 34-year-old Perth man, was fined for carrying an unrestrained child.
The second car was stopped about 5pm. Police say that as the car approached the booze bus site, the driver slowed down and let a woman who was holding a young child get out of the car’s passenger seat. Police searched the car but could not find a child seat.
They allege the 13-month-old child had been sitting on the passenger’s lap.
The driver, a 31-year-old man from Point Cook, will be charged with carrying an unrestrained child. Police also allege he was driving while his licence was suspended.
Police from Wyndham, Hobsons Bay and Maribyrnong carried out 1993 preliminary breath tests during the first day of the operation, catching three drivers affected by drink.
They also discovered four unregistered vehicles, six unlicensed drivers, one unaccompanied learner driver, three people speeding, three vehicles with headlights not turned on, and one person failing to display L-plates.
