{"id":293763,"date":"2026-09-25T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293763\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:38:11","slug":"berks-county-police-to-conduct-dui-patrols-sobriety-checkpoints-through-end-of-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/293763\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County police to conduct DUI patrols, sobriety checkpoints through end of September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berks County law enforcement agencies will conduct increased DUI enforcement through the end of September, including roving patrols and sobriety checkpoints on area roadways.<\/p>\n<p>The North Central Regional DUI Enforcement Program announced the enforcement effort Wednesday, Sept. 24, saying officers will be looking for drivers impaired by both alcohol and drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the arrival of the fall season and football games can bring increased alcohol consumption and encouraged residents attending or watching games to plan for a safe ride home before drinking.<\/p>\n<p>Police participating in the initiative will conduct roving DUI patrols and sobriety checkpoints at undisclosed locations throughout the county.<\/p>\n<p>The North Central Regional DUI Enforcement Program coordinates, equips and funds municipal police DUI enforcement efforts across 11 Pennsylvania counties.<\/p>\n<p>The sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols are funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County law enforcement agencies will conduct increased DUI enforcement through the end of September, including roving patrols&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-293763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293763","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=293763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}