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The first night of a city police blitz to test motorists for alcohol and drugs has proved disappointing, police say.
Police launched Australia's biggest drink-driving operation Operation RAID (Remove All Impaired Drivers) on Friday with plans to breath-test more than half a million motorists in central Melbourne by Saturday, December 12.
Victoria will breath-test more drivers than any other state and they hope to improve on last year's record low road toll of 303 by going under 300 in 2009.
The state is on track to achieve that with 255 fatalities on the roads this year compared to 270 at the same time last year, but police are aware they are entering the dangerous Christmas party and holiday periods.
City traffic Inspector Greg Parr said preliminary results netted in the first two hours of the operation on Friday showed up to 15 drivers with illegal blood alcohol concentrations of more than 0.05 per cent had been caught.
'What is disappointing is we've told everybody about it; we didn't make a secret about it,' Insp Parr told AAP.
'The odds are, if you're driving you'll be tested.'
