Crime & Safety

County Police Plan St. Patrick's Day DUI Patrols

Baltimore County officers will be meeting March 16 to coordinate traffic operations with other law enforcement agencies in the region.

The Baltimore County Police Department plans to seriously address the safety of those who will be on the road this St. Patrick's Day.

Officers will be meeting March 16 to coordinate traffic operations with other law enforcement agencies in the region. The officers will go over standardized field sobriety field testing, legal issues and DUI detection.

On March 17, they will have a two hour wrap-up meeting with motivational speaker Debbie Hardy, who will talk about the tragic aftermath of crashes involving drunk driving. Hardy’s 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk driver in October 2003.

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St. Patrick's Day is commonly associated with parties and drinking. If you know you will be drinking, the Baltimore County Police Department strongly suggests citizens don’t drive. County police advise taking a taxi home or designating a friend to drive during the day and/or night’s partying.

The Baltimore County Police Department and other agencies will be using saturation patrols in well-documented DUI and DWI sections of the county. If you are caught drinking and driving, you could be arrested on the spot.

"We don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun this St. Paddy’s Day," the Baltimore County Police Department stated in a press release, "but we do want everyone to think before they get behind the wheel."

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