By Leif M. Wright
The Oklahoma Freeway Patrol ENDUI crew will companion with regulation enforcement from throughout Oklahoma to arrange DUI checkpoints over New Yr’s Eve vacation. This effort is a part of the nationwide Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over mobilization. Comparable efforts will happen throughout the US this vacation weekend.
Through the earlier New Yr vacation interval, there have been 149 crashes in Oklahoma. Two of these crashes had been fatalities ensuing within the deaths of two individuals. Of these 149 crashes, a minimum of 27 of them had been alcohol and/or drug-related, in response to the patrol.
A checkpoint is deliberate in Tulsa County for New Yr’s Eve from 10 p.m. Dec. 31, till 1 a.m. Jan. 1, 2022. Businesses concerned with this checkpoint embody the Oklahoma Freeway Patrol, Bixby and Damaged Arrow police departments, Tulsa County Sheriff’s Workplace, and the Muskogee (Creek) Nation Lighthorse Police.
One other checkpoint is deliberate in Muskogee on New Yr’s Eve. The checkpoint will begin at 9 p.m. and is scheduled to finish simply earlier than midnight. As soon as the checkpoint has completed, all of the officers, deputies, and troopers working the checkpoint will hit the streets to affix the others in search of impaired drivers. Businesses concerned embody the Oklahoma Freeway Patrol, Muskogee Police Division, Muskogee County Sheriff’s Workplace, and the Muskogee (Creek) Nation Lighthorse Police.
The ENDUI enforcement crew coordinates multi-jurisdictional occasions regularly, together with sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols.
