New Mexico

Department of Public Safety

Keeping New Mexico Safer Through Safe Roads and Safer Communities

Sobriety Checkpoints in December 2018

Written by Officer Ray Wilson 11/27/2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 27, 2018

State Police Sobriety Checkpoints and Saturation Patrols in Counties across the State in December 2018.

Statewide - State Police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints; saturation patrols; and registration, insurance and driver's license checkpoints in all New Mexico counties during the month of December 2018.

We are bringing awareness to these events in an effort to reduce alcohol related fatalities through continued media attention and intensive advertising. These checkpoints are helping to change society's attitude about drinking and driving.

Hundreds of lives could be saved each year if every driver had the courage to make the right decision not to drink and drive.

Who: New Mexico State Police

What: Sobriety Checkpoints, Saturation Patrols and Registration/Insurance/DL Checkpoints

When: December 2018

Where: All New Mexico Counties

Why: So, we can ENDWI in New Mexico

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