State and local police plan to proactively seeking out impaired drivers in Berks County over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Troopers from the Hamburg station announced Thursday that they plan to conduct stepped-up DUI patrols over upcoming weekends in northern Berks County as well as a sobriety checkpoint in an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n
The dedicated patrols aim to spot drivers who exhibit signs of impairment from alcohol or drugs, troopers said.<\/p>\n
The initiative is aimed at curtailing the number of people killed or seriously injured from alcohol- or drug-related crashes, officials said, adding that they plan to announce the results of stepped-up patrols.<\/p>\n
Municipal police departments throughout Berks will also coordinate roving patrols and a sobriety checkpoint on a well-traveled road through the end of September, officials announced.<\/p>\n
That effort is being done under the umbrella of the North Central Regional DUI Enforcement program, which equips, funds and coordinates the municipal police DUI enforcement in eleven Pennsylvania counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State and local police plan to proactively seeking out impaired drivers in Berks County over the coming weeks.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,6056],"class_list":["post-276366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-rhr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}