Police Cancel Planned Sobriety Checkpoint

A sobriety checkpoint, which was to have been conducted by police on the night of September 29 and early morning hours of September 30, was canceled.

Police Chief Michael Kehoe said this week the checkpoint was canceled due to the prospect of bad weather and due to a lack of sufficient police personnel to staff such a checkpoint. Police work checkpoint duty on an overtime basis.

At such events, each motorist traveling through the checkpoint is briefly stopped. Drivers are interviewed to determine if they are driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

Drivers found to be under the influence are arrested and transported to the police station for arrest processing. Drivers also are checked for various other violations while stopped.

Police plan heightened enforcement of the drunken driving laws later this year, during the year-end holiday season, the police chief said.