Law enforcement officers from across Delaware will assemble at locations in all three counties to conduct statewide impaired driving checkpoints. The focus will be on behavioral traffic safety issues such as impaired driving, seat belt use, speeding, child passenger safety, pedestrian and bicycle safety, motorcycle safety, and teen driving issues.
Drug Recognition Experts (DREs), law enforcement officers trained in detecting drug impaired drivers, will be on hand at the checkpoints to identify drivers impaired by illegal and prescription drugs as well. Please ensure that you plan ahead and find a safe ride home!
To continue it's mission of saving lives by enhancing highway safety, the Delaware Office of Highway Safety will be implementing several countermeasures to combat impaired driving. (A DUI arrest can set you back an average of $10,000 in attorney fees, fines, court costs, lost time at work, higher insurance rates, car towing and repairs, and more. It could also result in the loss of your license and possibly even your job.)
On Saturday, September 1st, police will be out in full force in Delaware as part of the “CheckPoint StrikeForce” deployment. Three sobriety check points, one in each county, will be conducted at the following locations:
1. New Castle County: U.S. Rt. 40 (Pulaski Hwy.), Newark
2. Kent County: State Rt. 10, Dover
3. Sussex County: State Rt. 54, Selbyville
During the 2017 Labor Day holiday weekend, from September 1st-4th, 12 DUI related crashes were investigated, one of which resulted in a fatality. There were also a total of 83 arrests made statewide for DUI.
If you celebrate the unofficial end of summer and choose to drink and drive during this Labor Day holiday weekend, in addition to jeopardizing the safety of you and other motorists, you could very well be jeopardizing your current job status as well as future employability. Think of those people that you care about, and who care about you, before deciding to get behind the wheel. One bad decision can have permanent ramifications.
2. Kent County: State Rt. 10, Dover
3. Sussex County: State Rt. 54, Selbyville
During the 2017 Labor Day holiday weekend, from September 1st-4th, 12 DUI related crashes were investigated, one of which resulted in a fatality. There were also a total of 83 arrests made statewide for DUI.
If you celebrate the unofficial end of summer and choose to drink and drive during this Labor Day holiday weekend, in addition to jeopardizing the safety of you and other motorists, you could very well be jeopardizing your current job status as well as future employability. Think of those people that you care about, and who care about you, before deciding to get behind the wheel. One bad decision can have permanent ramifications.
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Well, since we as a people have set a precedent and given up some rights to our freedom by allowing the Government to stop and question law-abiding citizens (and search - even if just visually), we may as well take it to the next obvious level.
I suggest the following checkpoints:
* A tax checkpoint
* Child-support checkpoint
* Gun registration check-up checkpoint
* Overdue library books checkpoint
* Student loan checkpoint
* Outstanding warrant checkpoint
* Wearing a seatbelt checkpoint
* Smoking with a child in the car checkpoint
* Marriage fidelity checkpoint
* Phone bill paid checkpoint
* Removing the "do not remove" tag from pillows checkpoint
My only question is this: Exactly when did we become a third-world country?
(DISCLAIMER: I am 100% against drinking ANY amount of an alcoholic beverage and driving a car. There's a time to drink - and there's a time to drive. They do not go together!
Taxi; Uber; Lyft. Too simple.)
Mo money Mo money Mo money
Aww
How sweet.
They care about all of us.
Trying to keep the whole world alive.
Trying to make sure nothing bad happens to anyone.
Thank you officers!
Not a good use of police resources as well as it should not be legal.
Amen. Pray for all officers. They have to love their jobs because they don't make nearly enough money to jeopardize their lives every day they put on the uniform
It has been tested in the courts and proven legal over and over again. It is even publicly posted when & where these are, so if you don't want to get caught, DON'T DRINK & DRIVE. Use Uber, Lyft, stay home and drink or use your phone to phone a friend. NO excuses!!
Question for SBYNews.
Do you see that picture, 5th one down on my page, with the white and black SUV police SUV on the side of the road? It's the one with the small red car stopped in the road next to it.
Do you know what police agency that is? It's not the DSP. It's the University of Delaware Police Department. That's right, University of Delaware. The University of Delaware Police Department is assisting the Delaware State police with this Sobriety Checkpoint.
Why is it that most all University Police Departments assist other police agencies except the Salisbury University Police. Have you ever seen the SUPD on a traffic stop? Have you ever seen the SUPD investigating auto accidents around the University? Have you ever seen a SUPD K-9 Unit? Have you ever seen a SUPD officer assisting the City of Salisbury Police? Have you ever seen the SUPD assisting the Maryland State Police? Have you ever seen the SUPD assisting the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office? Have you ever seen the SUPD assisting the Fruitland PD? Have you ever seen the SUPD running radar? Have you ever seen the SUPD on a car chase?
I know for a fact that the Salisbury University Police Department refuses to assist allied agencies on mutual aid calls. The claim they need to keep their officers on campus. If they need to keep their officers on campus then why do they always leave campus to go to Wawa for free coffee? Why do they always leave campus to go to the local burger joints for lunch?
The Salisbury University Police Department is a fully sworn police department but they refuse to do the duties of a real police department.
Parents, do you really feel safe with your children going to Salisbury University when they don't have real police officers doing real police duties.
If the Salisbury University Police Department refuses to do their jobs as real police officers then maybe they should lose their police status and drop back to college security officers and take their guns from them. When Edwin Lashley retired from the MSP and was hired to lead the SUPD I thought things would change, boy was I mistaken.
Edwin Lashley, you've worn out your welcome. Please resign!
ROLL down your window show ID SAY NOTHING don't even LOOK at em.
Overtime opportunity for the Stasi.
Constitution? What's that?
Lashley is nothing more than a puppet to fill a quota. The problem is, he is too stupid to see it. He believes his own hype. He is BY FAR the worst supervisor I have ever seen in the MSP...and that’s sayin something!! Racist egotistical ahole
12:18....
You just went to the head of the "Stupid as rocks" line.
It's NOT about whether drinking and driving is bad. It's ALL ABOUT American citizens, the OVERWHELMING majority COMPLETELY INNOCENT OF ANY CRIME (that last part might be a difficult part -- read it again slowly) being forced to stop by ARMED MEN to see IF, maybe, possibly, in some way MIGHT be guilty of something.
Don't stop and submit? You may be killed for it.
"if you don't like it, don't drink and drive....." Are you REALLY that stupid? I don't drink ANY alcohol and I don't like the Nazi "checkpoints", either. But I still get stopped. Innocent, just going to the store, and I have to PROVE I'M INNOCENT to an armed agent of the government? Have you EVER read the Constitution???
Just because there a million people cheering something doesn't mean it's okay. Check out the wildly cheering millions as Hitler unleashed his merciless campaign of confiscation, checkpoints, "inspections", registrations (of certain groups of people), and outright robbery and murder.
You had some relatives there, didn't you, cheering like mad. How did all THAT turn out for the cheerleaders? They were raped and killed. Three million German women raped when their country was overran.
Keep cheering. You idiot.
Innocent people aren't supposed to have to PROVE their innocence to ANYONE.
ESPECIALLY government agents with their hand on a gun.
Not in a free republic anyway.
A lot of us can't hardly wait to get to people like you.
Just like Thomas Jefferson said.....You don't know who he is, do you??
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