NEWS RELEASE
City of Takoma Park Police Department
• 7500 Maple Avenue • Takoma Park, Md 20912
For more information contact:
Lt. Richard Cipperly, 301/891.7117
Catherine Plevy, 301/891.7142
December 6, 2007 (3:10 p.m.)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
To help ensure that all of us enjoy our holiday season, the Takoma Park Police Department will be leading a joint initiative to reduce the number of drunk drivers on the roads. In collaboration with the Prince George’s County and Montgomery County Police Departments, Takoma Park Police will be cracking down on alcohol related offenses as part of a multi-jurisdictional task force. This Enhanced Impaired Driver Task Force will operate in Prince George’s County, Montgomery County and the City of Takoma Park and will be conducting checkpoints and increasing patrols in targeted areas. All jurisdictions have common goals for this initiative: foster public safety, stop drunk driving and keep the roads safe. The Takoma Park Police Department would like to thank the Maryland International Corridor CSAFE Program for funding part of this initiative.
On December 14, the City of Takoma Park Police Department would like to invite the media to come out to the Takoma-Langley Crossroads Community to witness this innovative DUI Enforcement tactic, the Enhanced Impaired Multi-jurisdictional Driver Task Force. On this date, all three police jurisdictions, the City of Takoma Park, Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties, will be collaboratively out in force. Media representatives will have the opportunity to speak with police department personnel and capture images and footage of three police jurisdictions working cooperatively. Joint DUI Enforcement activities, including Montgomery County and Takoma Park Police, will also be occurring on two other dates in December in the Crossroads area.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2006, 17,602 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-related motor vehicle traffic crashes. It’s hard to imagine at the holidays, or any other time, the loss of an innocent child, parent, sibling or friend in an unavoidable, tragic alcohol-related incident. Within the next two minutes, another person will be injured in a drunk driving accident. That person could be the driver who made the fateful decision to drive while drunk, or could be someone’s child sitting in his or her car seat running holiday errands with mom or dad. Holidays are some of the most dangerous times on the road. Please be safe.
Posted by Cathy at December 6, 2007 03:12 PM