The Arizona Governor's Office of Highway Safety released numbers Sunday for the Labor Day Weekend Holiday DUI Task Force, which started statewide Aug. 15.
Sixty-nine law-enforcement agencies involving 283 officers and deputies made 3,055 traffic stops. Of these, 228 DUI arrests were made during the one-week time period of Aug. 15-23.
According to the report, 69 of the 228 DUI arrests were extreme DUI cases with blood-alcohol levels of 0.15 or above. A blood-alcohol content of 0.08 is considered intoxicated. Twenty minors were also arrested on suspicion of DUI, according to the report.
Although the DUI task force's period of activity has yet to conclude, traffic stops have already increased markedly compared with the previous year's data over a similar time period (Aug. 17-Sept. 3). This year's DUI task force will operate Aug. 15-Sept. 1. According to the state's records, 3,055 traffic stops have already been made in one week, compared with 1,812 in the entire two weeks of last year's DUI task-force enforcement.
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