DUI Checkpoints for New Year's Eve Are Part of Holiday Crackdown on Drunk Driving

[The following information comes from a press release issued by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department].

From 12:01 AM Friday December 16, 2011 through Midnight Wednesday December 28, 2011 officers representing 100 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 1,725 individuals for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In 2010, 1,592 DUI arrests occurred during the same thirteen-day time period.

For the New Year’s Weekend and final weekend of the campaign the following activities will be conducted. (Note: Scheduled activities are subject to change). The CHP will be deploying all available officers for their Maximum Enforcement Period during the New Year’s holiday weekend.

Additionally, all regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during their normal shifts. Multiple/DUI Driver’s License Checkpoints, Multi-Agency DUI Task Force operations and local Roving DUI patrols are all part of this region-wide effort during the 17-day Winter Holiday Campaign.

Over the course of the next week of the campaign, the following enforcement will be conducted:

Saturday, December 31

DUI Checkpoint –Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Including Monterey Park, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Montebello, and Bell Gardens)
DUI Checkpoint – LAPD – Pacific area
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Including the cities of Glendora, Pomona, Claremont, La Verne, Covina, Azusa, Irwindale, CHP and LAPD)
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Including Glendale, South Pasadena, Pasadena, Burbank, San Marino, and San Fernando.)
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (West) – (El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach and Torrance)
DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency – (Including officers from Baldwin Park, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Arcadia and Sierra Madre)
DUI Patrol – CHP Antelope Valley
DUI Patrol – CHP Newhall
DUI Patrol – LASD – Bellflower
DUI Patrol – LASD – Compton

Sunday, January 1, 2012

DUI Patrol – LAPD – Mission Area
DUI Patrol – LASD – Carson
DUI Patrol – LASD – TBD

All regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus their efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during normal shifts. The CHP will deploy all available officers during the final nights of their Maximum Enforcement Period this holiday weekend beginning Friday.

Multiple DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoints, Multi Agency DUI Task Force operations and local Roving DUI patrols are all part of this region-wide crackdown during the 17-day Winter Holiday Campaign.

Police, Sheriff and CHP encourage all motorists to help make the holidays safer: Report Drunk Drivers – Call 911. DUI arrest data collection will continue through New Year’s Weekend, midnight Sunday, January 1, 2012. Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety http://www.ots.ca.gov/ , through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration http://www.nhtsa.gov/