DUI Enforcement Hiked Citywide in Long Beach

Long Beach will be subject to a citywide intensive DUI enforcement Saturday to crack down on Labor Day drunk or impaired driving, only one of numerous cities with DUI checkpoints this weekend.

The Long Beach Police Department has not identified DUI checkpoint locations but instead will increase patrols throughout the 50-square-mile city, the department announced.

The intensified patrols begin at 8 p.m. Saturday and will last through 4 a.m. Sunday, police said.

"In an effort to reduce the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes, DUI Saturation Patrols are conducted to identify offenders and get them off the street, as well as educate the public on the dangers of impaired driving," a press statement explained.

Nationally, impaired driving caused by alcohol or drugs causes one death every 30 minutes, and one injury every two minutes, the police department said. The average American has a 30% chance of being killed or injured by an impaired driver.

Long Beach has not disclosed its target areas but have provided the following details:

The California Highway Patrol will conduct a "maximum enforcement" effort from 6:01 p.m. Friday through 11:59 p.m. Monday, during which all available officers will be deployed. (See below for a schedule.)

Labor Day Weekend DUI and Patrol Schedule

Friday, Aug. 31

DUI Checkpoint – Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Glendale, South Pasadena, Pasadena, Burbank, San Marino, and San Fernando), West Covina; Avoid the 100 (West) Multi-Agency in El Segundo (El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo and Torrance), Glendale, LASD Bellflower, South L.A., CHP, East L.A., Altadena, Santa Fe Springs, Antelope Valley

DUI Patrol – Gardena

Saturday, Sept. 1

DUI Checkpoint –Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency – (Including officers from Baldwin Park, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Arcadia and Sierra Madre), CHP West Valley, LAPD – Central Area

DUI Patrol – Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Conducted in the cities of Glendale, South Pasadena, Pasadena, Burbank, San Marino, and San Fernando), Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency (Monterey Park, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Montebello, Downey, Whittier and Bell Gardens), Avoid the 100 (West) Multi-Agency in El Segundo (El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo Beach and Torrance), Gardena, Glendale, Long Beach, LASD location TBD

Sunday, Sept. 2

DUI Patrol - Avoid the 100 (East) Multi-Agency – (Including officers from Baldwin Park, West Covina, Baldwin Park School Police, El Monte, Monrovia, Arcadia and Sierra Madre), Avoid the 100 (West) Multi-Agency in El Segundo (El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Redondo and Torrance), Gardena, LAPD – Hollenbeck Area

Monday, Sept. 3

MEP (Maximum Enforcement Period) – CHP Southern Division, LASD location TBD

--with reporting by City News Service on L.A. County DUI efforts.