Impaired Driving Campaign 4/15/2019

Beginning April 19 through April 20, the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office will join other Law Enforcement agencies in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma to stop impaired driving.  This has been an increasing epidemic for the past several years. 

In an effort to change this trend, law enforcement agencies across the six-state area will be extra-vigilant when patrolling around city, state and federal highways.  Impaired driving is not a victimless crime.  All available Drug Recognition Expert and Advanced Roadside Impaired Driver Enforcement officers will be out in force in an effort to remove this danger. 

Officers will issue citations to any individual who refuses to obey the traffic laws, whether it is for driving while impaired, for speeding, texting, or failing to buckle up.  Sheriff Jeff Easter says, “Even one death is unacceptable.  Please don’t drive while impaired, slow down, put the phone away or turn it off, and always buckle up.”