News Release

For further information please contact: Sergeant Martin K. Elmore
(417) 469-3121, ext. 225
G-05082
May 07, 2008

EMPHASIS: Safety Checkpoints To Be Held


Captain Billy E. Chadwick, commanding officer of Troop G, Willow Springs, announces that safety checkpoints will be held in Shannon County sometime in the month of May. The Missouri State Highway Patrol in cooperation with other area law enforcement agencies will conduct the checkpoints.

Safety checkpoints are part of the Patrol’s efforts to remove careless and intoxicated drivers from Missouri’s highways, and are conducted at various locations which have been found to experience a higher than normal number of alcohol-related contacts, hazardous driving contacts, and collisions.

Captain Chadwick says, “The Missouri State Highway Patrol is committed to saving lives through effective enforcement of our traffic laws. We will use checkpoints as a tool to accomplish that goal.”


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