The Riley County Police Department is participating in a national campaign to curb drunk driving this holiday season.
The Taking Down DUI campaign began Sunday and continues through Jan 3. A Kansas Department of Transportation grant is supporting overtime enforcement efforts to aggressively target and remove impaired drivers from the roads.
According to KDOT, the New Year’s Day holiday period outranks most other holidays in the number of crashes in which at least one of the drivers is impaired by alcohol and/or other drugs.
Drivers are asked to help law enforcement by keeping an eye out for suspicious driving behaviors.
