Law Enforcement to Hold Sobriety Checkpoint This Weekend

A sobriety checkpoint will be held somewhere in the town of Amherst this weekend, according to a press statement from the New Hampshire State Police.

Troopers from Troop B in Bedford, according to Col. Robert Quinn, the director of the state police, and Chief Mark Reams of the Amherst Police Department, will team up with local police to put together the checkpoint.

The sobriety checkpoint has been approved by the Hillsborough County Superior Court.

“It will be conducted under guidelines promulgated by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office,” according to officials.

In a joint statement, both Quinn and Reams said that the departments “consider the identification and apprehension of impaired drivers and enforcement of the Driving While Intoxicated statutes to be a top priority. Sobriety checkpoints are one of the best methods of deterring impaired drivers.”

New Hampshire State Police sobriety checkpoint photo courtesy of Brian Blackden.