how you do see me I'm
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Department oh
okay hi the police department we're
doing a spry point this season have you
had anything to drink where you coming
from a little bit just a little you're
coming from Santa Fe yeah
I you're looking for Sano you can take L
all the way
s all right be safe have a good
evening that
was all right I'm Sergeant Zachary cro
with with the aler police department I
am the DWI Sergeant uh we did set up a
checkpoint uh near the intersection of
less and Broadway tonight checking
eastbound traffic uh during that
checkpoint we did check approximately
308 vehicles uh while checking those 308
Vehicles we did arrest 16 people for
driving under the influence of alcohol
uh we do set up these checkpoints
approximately three times a month we do
scatter them throughout the city so you
never know where you might run into one
um tonight we did have approximately 177
people working the checkpoint line
checking vehicles I also had six PSAs
that do help uh move vehicles from the
checkpoint line and also help to those
vehicles I had four transport officers
that do transport people that are
arrested for DWI uh to the jail I also
had three safety officers that do assist
uh with checking vehicles to ensure that
as they come into the checkpoint that
they are traveling at a s safe speed and
they do um perform traffic stops on any
vehicles that do try to avoid the
checkpoint uh if they do perform a
traffic stop on a vehicle that avoids
the checkpoint they do um call one of
the officers from the checkpoint line uh
to perform that DWI investigation if
that person is subsequently arrested for
DWI they are uh returned back to the
Batmobile for further processing we do
bring out the Batmobile to all our DWI
checkpoints uh it is equipped with four
intoxilizer machines so that we can do
all breath testing on site um all
officers are equipped with laptops where
they are able to complete all their
paperwork on site
and the Batmobile is also equipped with
docking stations and printers so all
paperwork can be completed and printed
on site uh increasing the efficiency of
that officer so they can be released uh
to go back to the checkpoint line to
help keep traffic Flor at a safe pace
and increasing the likelihood that we
can detect more people from dag the
influence of alcohol and arrest those
offenders we did have one offender that
was driving uh under the influence of
alcohol with approximately 10 or
11-year-old son in the vehicle with him
uh we did did have to call that boy's
mom to come pick him up uh to get him
safely home obviously from this
checkpoint uh that person was not only
arrested just for DWI but also child
abuse since he knowingly put that
child's life at risk while driving with
him in the vehicle under the influence
of alcohol once a subject is arrested
for AWI uh their vehicle is towed so
that is just another expense that does
go along with being arrested for AWI if
that person has a prior DWI conviction
on their record that vehicle is not only
told but it is seized by the city of
Albuquerque uh that person is allowed to
have a hearing to see whether or not
they're going to be able to have that
vehicle back um often times the city
does keep the vehicles and we do auction
off those
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vehicles