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Holiday Alcohol Task Force – Week 5

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, December 19, 2017

The officers of the Montgomery County Police Alcohol Holiday Task Force have been devoting their full time and attention to detecting alcohol-related offenses this holiday season.

• During this past week’s Task Force (December 13 to December 16), task force officers arrested 38 people for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs (DUI).

• During the past 5 weeks of the Alcohol Holiday Task Force, task force officers have arrested 150 people for DUI.

It should be noted that the above arrests include only those arrests made by task force officers and do not include the additional arrests made by patrol officers in the performance of their duties.  Therefore, the number of total DUI arrests made by MCP officers during this time period is higher.



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Release ID: 17-430
Media Contact: mcpnews 
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