Law enforcement and police officers were recognized for work in DWI enforcement.<\/p>\n
ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- Law enforcement officers, prosecutors and advocates were recognized in Albany for work aimed at stopping drunk and drugged driving.<\/p>\n
Related: Coxsackie man admits to causing deadly crash<\/a><\/p>\n A total of 124 law enforcement professionals from across New York gathered at the Albany Capital Center with prosecutors and advocacy organizations for the annual recognition event.<\/p>\n The Governor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and STOP-DWI personnel took part. Award winners were nominated by their supervisors and cited for going above and beyond to keep streets safe from drunk and drugged driving.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s motivating to receive something like this. It makes me want to keep getting out there, especially hearing all the personal stories,\u201d said Jesse Caprotti.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody knows somebody who has been impacted by someone who has been say a victim of a drunk driver,\u201d said New York State Trooper, Joshua Tusang. \u201cOr knows somebody who has been impacted by a drunk driver some way in their life. So just getting the off the roadways, it\u2019s a very meaningful experience.\u201d<\/p>\n The event recognized efforts in DWI enforcement, prosecution and education.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0recognition awards<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0law enforcement<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0DWI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement and police officers were recognized for work in DWI enforcement. ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- Law enforcement officers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[44507,8041,9,24,63,122,124,123,84273],"class_list":["post-213580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-dwi","tag-law-enforcement","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-recognition-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}