New Hampshire State Police Saturation Patrols Coming To Concord Area

CONCORD, NH ? New Hampshire State Police will be patrolling the streets and highways of the greater Concord area, looking for drunken drivers.

Col. Nathan Noyes, the director of state police, and Lt. Daniel Baldassarre, Troop D?s commander, said troopers would be on the roadways in the area on Saturday. The exact hours of the patrols were not known at post time. This initiative was sponsored and funded by the New Hampshire Office of Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

?The New Hampshire State Police have taken an aggressive stance to prevent persons from driving when impaired,? Amber Lagace, a spokesperson for the department, said. ?New Hampshire has some of the most aggressive laws in the country to fight impaired driving, and the law enforcement community will use those tools to their fullest extent.?

Federal highway safety funds are used to support the saturation patrols, officials said.

Analytical data from 2020 by the safety administration showed that 32 people die each day in a drunk driving accident in the United States ? or one person every 45 minutes.

The announcement comes just days after state police and other officials around New England agreed to work on slowing down drivers around the six states.

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