Delaware County officers set up DUI patrols for holiday weekend

HAVERFORD TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Bars and eating places are flooded with patrons this St. Patrick’s Day, particularly with March Insanity and spring climate amplifying the vacation on Friday.

With all of the celebrating, police are reminding revelers that roving DUI patrols will probably be on the roads to verify everybody will get house protected.

Police worry that the mix of the nice and cozy climate, upcoming weekend, and the festivities will result in an uptick in folks driving beneath the affect.

“It may spell for a catastrophe of accidents,” stated Superintendent John Viola with the Haverford Police Division. “We’re very conscious of that.”

The Northern Delaware County DUI Job Drive is deployed this weekend to make sure drivers keep protected.

Radnor Police Superintendent Chris Flanagan says he’ll even be on patrol over the weekend.

“We now have a NCAA Girls’s Championship right here at Villanova,” he stated. “We’re extraordinarily excited, nevertheless it means a bunch of persons are on the town additionally to have a superb time.”

Radnor, Haverford, Marple, Newtown, and Springfield townships all are a part of the DUI Taskforce. They will have further officers patrolling the roadways in search of drunk drivers.

Since 2009, the duty power has arrested 179 DUI drivers and issued 47 citations for underage ingesting, together with greater than 1,200 different citations.

The message is that this: plan forward.

“It comes all the way down to this: have a good time responsibly, however have a plan,” stated Flanagan. “Do not simply exit and never have a plan to get house.”

On the intense aspect, police say that with the rise of Uber, Lyft, and different journey share companies, DUI arrests have gone down in recent times.