Police have reiterated that drink driving is a crime and offenders are liable to imprisonment.

The appeal comes after two recent court cases in which two men were jailed.

On April 27 at Tuen Mun Magistracy, a 27-year-old man was fined $7,500, disqualified from driving for four years and jailed for two months after he pleaded guilty to two counts of drink driving.

The court heard he was arrested twice for drink driving during the Easter holidays. Officers found his car moving irregularly at the junction of Kau Yuk Road and Fung Nin Road in Yuen Long on April 10. The car was stopped, and his alcohol level exceeded legal limits. He was arrested and bailed.

At about 5am on April 13, he was stopped while driving along Wan Tat Street in To Kwa Wan and found to be drink driving.

In the other case on April 22, a 47-year-old man pleaded guilty to drink driving at Fanling Magistracy. The court heard he was driving along Jockey Club Road in Sheung Shui on March 3, and was found to be drink driving.

He was fined $8,000, disqualified from driving for 18 months and sentenced to two months' jail suspended for 18 months.

Under the Road Traffic Ordinance, drink drivers are liable to a maximum fine of $25,000 and three years' prison.