{"id":62287,"date":"2025-11-20T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62287\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:09:08","slug":"bakersfield-police-announce-dui-and-drivers-license-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/62287\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Police announce DUI and Driver&#8217;s License Checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI and Driver\u2019s License Checkpoint on Friday, November 21.<\/p>\n<p>The checkpoint will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officers will be looking for signs of alcohol or drug impairment as well as checking drivers for proper licensing.<\/p>\n<p>Specially trained officers will be available to evaluate those suspected of drug-impaired driving which includes not only illegal narcotics, but many prescription drugs, marijuana, and even some over-the-counter medications.<\/p>\n<p>Those caught while driving impaired can expect jail time, fines, fees, and DUI classes.<\/p>\n<p>If you suspect someone is driving impaired, BPD says to call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Bakersfield Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI and Driver\u2019s License&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-62287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}