HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011_12_28_Winter Holiday Anti DUI Crackdown
BAKERSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 28, 2011
PRESS RELEASE
The Winter Holiday Anti-DUI crackdown has resulted in a significant number of DUI arrests from local routine
traffic enforcement and special Avoid the 18 DUI deployments in Kern County as well as encouraging
preliminary data with regard to persons injured or killed in DUI collisions in Kern County and California.
This Friday, December 30th, 2011 from 7pm to 3am officers representing 18 county law enforcement agencies
and the California Highway Patrol will team together to conduct a DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoint in the
greater Bakersfield area. At the same time, extra local DUI Saturation Patrols will be deployed in Bakersfield.
On Saturday, December 31st, 2011 DUI Saturation Patrols will take place throughout the county with extra
officers in several communities and all available CHP officers patrolling for impaired drivers. All regularly
scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during their normal
shifts.
Police, Sheriff and the CHP encourage all motorists to help make your community 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, through
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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.
JC
________________________________________________________________________
You can now send an anonymous text message to the Bakersfield Police Department. It’s quick and it’s easy.
Simply enter 274637 into your phone and text BPDCrimes along with your message. The text is sent to the
police department and the sender remains completely anonymous.
Tips can also be anonymously sent through the smart phone “tip submit” mobile App or via email at
https://www.tipsubmit.com.
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