The Berlin Police Department has obtained a grant from the Connecticut
Department of Transportation's Highway Safety Division to support increased
DUI detection and enforcement efforts. This enforcement program will run
from Thanksgiving 2010 through Labor Day 2011. The grant provides 75 percent reimbursement of the overtime costs related to these efforts. The grant will help
to provide funding to staff additional DUI patrols as well as roadside sobriety
checkpoints. Roadside sobriety checkpoints have been shown to be the most
effective method to detect and apprehend under the influence drivers.
Additional DUI patrols will be conducted on Wednesday through Saturday nights
through on selected dates and times during the coming year. These patrols
will specifically target DUI operation but will also enforce any other violations
observed during the course of this operation.
The purpose of these patrols and checkpoints is to reduce accidents and injuries
related to DUI drivers and help provide safe travel.
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As part of this program a DUI sobriety checkpoint will be conducted on the
evening of Thursday, December 30, 2010. The checkpoint will be set up on the
Berlin Turnpike in the area of Middletown Road.
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