DUI Patrols Planned For Friday In Napa

NAPA, CA -- If you plan on partying out on the town this Friday night, you may want to make sure you have a designated driver. Officers from the Napa Police Department’s DUI Enforcement Team will be deploy this weekend to catch alcohol and drug-impaired drivers as part of an ongoing traffic safety campaign.

DUI patrols will be deployed between 6 p.m. Friday, March 17 and 2 a.m. Saturday, March 18 in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests.

Officers will be looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. When possible, specially trained officers will be available to evaluate those suspected of drug-impaired driving, which now accounts for a growing number of impaired driving crashes.

Police say that high visibility enforcement, using both DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols, has proven to lower the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol or drug impaired crashes. Research shows that crashes involving an impaired driver can be reduced by up to 20 percent when well-publicized proactive DUI operations are conducted routinely.

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