Post by onthejob on May 23, 2014 15:38:53 GMT -5
NCPD: 'Gathering intelligence' on where drunken drivers were served
May 23, 2014 by WILLIAM MURPHY. AND KEVIN DEUTSCH / william.murphy@newsday.com, kevin.deutsch@newsday.com
Nassau County announced its annual Memorial Day crackdown on drunken drivers Friday, and said information gathered from offenders will now be used to go after the establishments that serve liquor to intoxicated people.
Arresting officers will fill out a short form with the information as part of the arrest process, Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said at a news conference in Island Park with County Executive Edward Mangano and District Attorney Kathleen Rice.
"They will be gathering intelligence on where they were drinking. And what we will do is we will put this information in a database and we'll look to find patterns of behavior," Krumpter said.
"And then what we'll do is we'll aggressively go after those establishments, and we have a number of ways we'll go after these establishments, everything from sending in undercovers to referrals to the state Liquor Authority," Krumpter said.
"If you're a bar owner in Nassau County or you're the owner of some type of other licensed premises and you don't do your job -- you have a legal responsibility to not serve intoxicated persons -- and those people get on the road, we're going to be coming after you," the commissioner said.
The news conference came just days after Newsday and News 12 Long Island reported that driving while intoxicated arrests took a steep drop after Nassau police eliminated the Selective Enforcement Team, which targeted DWI offenders.
With the selective enforcement team, known as SET, on patrol, officers made an average of 2,641 DWI arrests from 2008 to 2011. Since the unit shut down, Nassau DWI arrests have maintained a steady decline, from 1,853 in 2012 to 1,545 last year.
Rice and Mangano said in a statement Thursday that the 2014 version of the unit "re-establishes the Selective Enforcement Team while also utilizing the intelligence-led policing models" now at the center of the county's broader crime-fighting strategy. That includes focusing patrols in areas where drunken drivers were more likely, and increasing DWI checkpoints.
Officials said the reconstituted SET team and DWI program, collectively called the DWI Alcohol-Related Incident Team, will continue the strategy of finding DWI "hot spots." In addition, the unit will establish roving DWI checkpoints.
May 23, 2014 by WILLIAM MURPHY. AND KEVIN DEUTSCH / william.murphy@newsday.com, kevin.deutsch@newsday.com
Nassau County announced its annual Memorial Day crackdown on drunken drivers Friday, and said information gathered from offenders will now be used to go after the establishments that serve liquor to intoxicated people.
Arresting officers will fill out a short form with the information as part of the arrest process, Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said at a news conference in Island Park with County Executive Edward Mangano and District Attorney Kathleen Rice.
"They will be gathering intelligence on where they were drinking. And what we will do is we will put this information in a database and we'll look to find patterns of behavior," Krumpter said.
"And then what we'll do is we'll aggressively go after those establishments, and we have a number of ways we'll go after these establishments, everything from sending in undercovers to referrals to the state Liquor Authority," Krumpter said.
"If you're a bar owner in Nassau County or you're the owner of some type of other licensed premises and you don't do your job -- you have a legal responsibility to not serve intoxicated persons -- and those people get on the road, we're going to be coming after you," the commissioner said.
The news conference came just days after Newsday and News 12 Long Island reported that driving while intoxicated arrests took a steep drop after Nassau police eliminated the Selective Enforcement Team, which targeted DWI offenders.
With the selective enforcement team, known as SET, on patrol, officers made an average of 2,641 DWI arrests from 2008 to 2011. Since the unit shut down, Nassau DWI arrests have maintained a steady decline, from 1,853 in 2012 to 1,545 last year.
Rice and Mangano said in a statement Thursday that the 2014 version of the unit "re-establishes the Selective Enforcement Team while also utilizing the intelligence-led policing models" now at the center of the county's broader crime-fighting strategy. That includes focusing patrols in areas where drunken drivers were more likely, and increasing DWI checkpoints.
Officials said the reconstituted SET team and DWI program, collectively called the DWI Alcohol-Related Incident Team, will continue the strategy of finding DWI "hot spots." In addition, the unit will establish roving DWI checkpoints.
