Waukesha Police Beef up Patrols for St. Patrick's Day

Editor's note: the following news release came from Waukesha Police Capt. Dennis Angle.

To combat drunken driving and increase safety belt use, the Waukesha Police Department will intensify its traffic safety enforcement during the St. Patrick’s Day holiday period. The increased enforcement started March 4 and ends March 20.

The increased enforcement is part of a $50,000 grant that the Waukesha Police Department received from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Safety.

Intensified traffic safety enforcement during the St. Patrick’s Day holiday period and throughout the year will help prevent motorists from killing and injuring themselves and others on our roadways. We’re striving to increase voluntary compliance with traffic safety laws; not to write more seat belt tickets or make more drunken driving arrests.  We are serious about traffic safety enforcement because far too many needless deaths and serious injuries are due to drunken driving and not wearing safety belts. Our goal is to reduce preventable traffic deaths to zero in Wisconsin because even one preventable traffic fatality is one too many