As the holiday season approaches, enhanced visibility on Nashville’s roadways and zero tolerance for impaired drivers are the cornerstones of the police department’s continuing DUI initiative using extra duty officers. Those officers, paid through a Governor’s Highway Safety Office grant, target impaired drivers Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. They patrol areas with a propensity for fatal crashes, crime, and DUI arrests.
Traffic fatalities in Nashville during 2007 are down 31 % overall and 50 % during the weekend overtime grant hours.
So far this year, extra duty officers working under the highway safety grant have arrested nearly 1,500 suspected drunk drivers, a 187% increase when compared to highway safety grant arrests at this time last year.
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