MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
a division of the
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Water Patrol Division, Post Office Box 568, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0568


News Release

For further information please contact: Sgt. Jerry Callahan
573-751-3313
WPD20110601
June 1, 2011

EMPHASIS: Missouri State Highway Patrol Water Patrol Division To Conduct Sobriety Checkpoint

Major Thomas E. Roam, director of the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Water Patrol Division, announces efforts to curb intoxicated operation of vessels on the state’s waterways. Sobriety checkpoints are planned for the month of June on Lake of the Ozarks. Sobriety checkpoints will be conducted to increase the boating public’s awareness of the potential hazards of operating a boat while intoxicated, maximize enforcement efforts in deterring impaired boating, remove intoxicated boaters from Missouri waterways, and reduce fatalities and injuries through vigorous enforcement of Missouri boating laws.

Vessels operating through a checkpoint will be stopped systematically as part of this program and efforts will be made to minimize interruptions to the flow of traffic.

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