DUI Police Out in Full Force on Christmas Day

Rumson, NJ - We already told you local police stepped up their DUI patrols through the first of the year.

But they’ll be particularly out in large numbers on Christmas Day, police say, patrolling area roads for drunk or even buzzed drivers.

“The hardest part of the job is making that house call and telling a family that their loved one is gone because someone chose to drink and drive,” said Keyport Police Chief George Casaletto.

The Bayshore Task Force, comprised of police departments in Aberdeen, Atlantic Highlands, Hazlet, Holmdel, Highlands, Keyport, Keansburg, Matawan, Middletown, and Union Beach, will be deploying officers as part of a DWI Saturation Patrol during the crackdown. Nine of the departments were awarded grants from the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety of $10,000 each to conduct saturation patrols.