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2. Enforcement
Partners in Progress: An Impaired Driving Guide for Action strategy — Ensure that law enforcement officers, prosecutors and judges support enforcement initiatives. Comprehensive enforcement programs are essential to maximize the likelihood of detecting, investigating, arresting and convicting impaired drivers. Enforcement programs are most successful when they are highly publicized. These programs should:
- Secure a commitment to rigorous enforcement of impaired driving — from the top levels of police management and state and local government;
- Provide state-of-the-art training for police officers, including Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST); Drug Evaluation and Classification (DEC); Drugs That Impair; Youth Enforcement Training; and Protecting Lives, Saving Futures;
- Provide adequate equipment and facilities, including preliminary and evidentiary breath test equipment, passive alcohol sensors, and in-car videotaping equipment;
- Deploy patrol resources effectively, using cooperative efforts of various state and local police agencies as appropriate;
- Make regular use of sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols and publicize their use;
- Facilitate the arrest process;
- Implement state-of-the-art, post-arrest investigations of apprehended impaired drivers;
- Emphasize enforcement of youth-impaired driving and drinking age laws;
- Emphasize enforcement of laws regulating alcohol or drug impairment by commercial motor vehicle drivers;
- Promote the use of passive alcohol sensors for zero tolerance law enforcement and for detecting drinking drivers at sobriety checkpoints;
- Support community policing activities with communities;
- Support law enforcement outreach on traffic safety prevention messages to schools, civic groups and other community activities; and
- Encourage law enforcement officials to publicize their enforcement activities within the community.
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