This year’s Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign is over and the Alaska State Troopers compiled statistics from the high visibility enforcement effort.
Trooper spokeswoman Megan Peters said additional funding was granted for the campaign.
Peters: “We were able to have more of our troopers on duty at once and they were specifically out targeting impaired drivers. With out regular patrols we only have a certain about of people that are normally on duty at any given time depending on where you are in the state and what this driver sober or get pulled over campaign did was it allowed us to use overtime hours pull from more pools of troopers and essentially have our guys on duty longer, bring them in at different time periods so we did have more people seeing us on the roadway because we had more troopers on the roadway during the campaign.”
The traffic citations issued by Troopers and incidents to which Troopers responded equaled out to:
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Although the campaign is over, troopers remain vigilant against impaired drivers.
