Metro police officers, including those working extra duty through a grant from the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, will be conducting sobriety checkpoints on Friday and Saturday nights of this week in the vicinity of Harding Place in South Nashville, West End Avenue, Harding Road, and Franklin Pike between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m.
Officers, paid through a Governor’s Highway Safety Office grant, charged 32 persons with DUI this week in the police department’s continuing DUI initiative using extra duty officers. These officers target impaired drivers Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. in areas with a propensity for fatal crashes, crime, and DUI arrests.
Enhanced visibility on Nashville’s roadways and zero tolerance for impaired drivers are the cornerstones of the police department’s DUI initiative. Traffic fatalities in Nashville during 2007 are down 25 % overall and 42 % during the weekend overtime grant hours.
So far this year, extra duty officers working under the grant have arrested over 1,650 suspected drunk drivers, a 170% increase when compared to arrests at this time last year.
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