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BAKERSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 2011
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release December 18, 2011
The Winter Holiday Anti-DUI crackdown has resulted in a significant number of DUI arrests
from local routine traffic enforcement and special Kern Avoid the 18 DUI deployments and
routine patrols overnight in Kern County.
From 12:01 AM Friday December 16, 2011 through Midnight Saturday December 17, 2011
officers representing 18 county law enforcement agencies have arrested 43 individuals for
driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In 2010 41 DUI arrests occurred during the
same 48 hour time period.
(**NOTE: These numbers are only provisional with some agencies yet to report**)
For Sunday night, December 18th extra local DUI Saturation Patrols will be deployed in the
cities of Bakersfield and Ridgecrest. 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 set region-wide during 17 day Winter Holiday Campaign.
Police, Sheriff and the CHP encourage all motorists to help make your community safer: Report
Drunk Drivers – Call 911. Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California
Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. DUI
arrest data collection will continue through New Year’s Weekend, midnight Sunday, January 1,
2012.
MEDIA NOTE: Please visit the AVOID website at www.californiaavoid.org for more
information the on campaign’s DUI Enforcement, statistical date on DUI arrests and DUI fatal
crashes from earlier enforcement efforts. The checkpoint locations and saturation patrols will
be made available for media opportunities or ride-alongs each night.
RG
In a continuing effort to provide the community with more efficient police services, the Bakersfield Police
Department has established an on-line reporting system for low priority report calls. The address is
http://www.bakersfieldcity.us/police