Napa Police to Conduct DUI Checks This Weekend

NAPA, CA -- Officers from the Napa Police Department are deploying this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the Department’s ongoing traffic safety campaign.

DUI saturation patrols are deploying Saturday, Jan. 28 between the hours of 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and /or arrests. A saturation patrol is a police tactic in which a large number of officers are concentrated into a small geographic area.

Napa officers will look 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 high visibility enforcement using both DUI checkpoints and DUI saturation patrols has proven to lower the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol or drug impaired crashes, and that 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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