High-Visibility Law Enforcement
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MADD also supports the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and law enforcement in their impaired driving mobilizations; which occur twice a year. To deter potential drunk and drug-impaired drivers, they must know enforcement is out there. The mobilizations do just that – let people know that law enforcement is keeping a special eye out for impaired drivers during dangerous parts of the year. HIGH-VISIBILITY ENFORCEMENT (HVE) METHODS: SATURATION PATROLS MADD has designated the Saturday before Labor Day weekend as Saturation Saturday - a day to team up with law enforcement departments nationwide to amplify the message that if you choose to drive impaired, you will get caught. MADD staff and volunteers coordinate with local departments to host media events, roll call briefings and sobriety checkpoints to show support for officers conducting high-visibility enforcement. The campaign is aimed at lowering drunk and drug impaired driving crashes and fatalities during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Sobriety checkpoints are organized and coordinated spots on the road where law enforcement officers divert traffic to conduct sobriety checks. Checkpoints are usually set up in locations where data shows a higher rate of crashes and substance impaired driving. The primary purpose of these high-visibility efforts is to remove drunk and drugged drivers from the road, communicate with the public that there is no tolerance for impaired driving, and help end drunk and drugged driving. When checkpoints are planned, publicized, and executed, there are great benefits to communities. Checkpoints work as a deterrent to drunk and drugged driving, get impaired drivers off the road and help law enforcement collect valuable statistics. The biggest benefit is that sobriety checkpoints and increased patrols save lives. Studies show that regular use of checkpoints can decrease impaired driving fatalities by as much as 20 percent. (6) HIGH-VISIBILITY ENFORCEMENT (HVE) METHODS: SOBRIETY CHECKPOINTS
How MADD Can Help at a Checkpoint:
Share victim stories- Mission Moment- during Roll Call Provide thank you cards to designated drivers Record statistics, such as counting vehicles and wait times Carry signs, thanking sober drivers Bring food and snacks for the officers
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