Mid MO DWI Checkpoint

05/06/2023

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department will have increased DWI enforcement as Downtown Columbia prepares for a busy weekend. Downtown Columbia is expected to be busy as Columbia residents hit the town to celebrate Cinco De Mayo. University of Missouri Students will also be out of class....

04/21/2023

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is taking measures to prevent impaired driving in Boone County. Troop F will be conducting impaired driving enforcement saturation between Thursday and Sunday.

Missouri law enforcement will be cracking down on high driving Thursday as people celebrate the marijuana-themed holiday known as 4/20.

10/16/2017

Officers looking exclusively for impaired drivers will patrol the roads of Boone County this week.

10/02/2017

06/14/2017

Sobriety checkpoints will likely become a rarity in Missouri soon.The remaining couple of weeks of June will be the last opportunity that local law

05/26/2017

Starting on Friday, the Missouri State Highway Patrol will be participating in Operation C.A.R.E

04/25/2017

BOONE COUNTY SOBRIETY CHECKPOINT IN MAY
Captain Michael A. Turner, commanding officer of Troop F, Jefferson City, announces that sometime during the month of May 2017, a sobriety checkpoint will be held in Boone County. Motorists will be contacted for the limited purpose of determining if they are impaired by alcohol or other drugs. All efforts will be made to keep the process as brief as possible. If the officer suspects a driver to be under the influence of intoxicants and/or drugs, they will be asked to submit to a field sobriety test(s).
Preliminary crash statistics indicate at least 164 alcohol/drug-related traffic crashes occurred in Boone County in calendar year 2016, resulting in 10 fatalities and 96 injuries.
Sobriety checkpoints are just one method the Missouri State Highway Patrol utilizes to combat preventable injury and death caused by impaired drivers.

04/11/2017

Two bills have been introduced in Jefferson City that seek to beef up driver education and exams as a means to improve interactions between police officer and motorists

03/10/2017

Sobriety checkpoint some time this month in Boone County.

09/02/2016

Columbia police officers this week will focus on curtailing drunken and drugged driving with sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols.

08/20/2016

Jefferson City police are holding a special enforcement looking for drunk drivers starting Friday.