Crime & Safety
Burlingame Police Announce DUI Enforcement Operations
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, police say they'll be out looking for anyone who gets behind the wheel while impaired.
BURLINGAME, CA — Burlingame police are planning a DUI enforcement operation the night before Thanksgiving "to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers" around town, the agency announced Tuesday. The Wednesday operation is slated to begin at 6 p.m. and last approximately eight hours.
Burlingame officers were deploy in two saturation patrols in areas of known DUI collisions or arrests.
"High Visibility Enforcement using both DUI checkpoints and DUI Saturation Patrols has proven to lower the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol or drug impaired crashes," BPD said in a news release.
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"Research shows that crashes involving an impaired driver can be reduced by up to 20 percent when well-publicized proactive DUI operations are conducted routinely."
Money for the operation comes from state and federal grants.
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