Lake In The Hills Police report success in holiday crackdown
During fifty-five hours of extra patrol time over the St. Patrick's Day holiday, Lake In The Hills police arrested nine drivers under the influence.
Lake In The Hills Police and other local law enforcement agencies partnered with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Illinois Department of Transportation to crackdown on impaired drivers. The campaign ran from March 6 to March 22.
Sgt. Eric Decker, a supervisor with the Lake In The Hills Traffic Unit, said extra patrol cars were assigned to the roads specifically to look for motorists who were driving impaired. Extra patrols are assigned about eight times a year during holiday periods when impaired drivers are more likely to be driving.
The Traffic Safety division of the Illinois Department of Transportation pays for the extra patrols through the Mini-Grant Alcohol Program.
According to Decker, this is the second year that Lake In The Hills participated in the crackdown. "I believe it was successful. Anything we can do to decrease the number of personal injury accidents, even if it saves just one person, is a success."
