{"id":21639,"date":"2015-08-25T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21639"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:51:12","slug":"the-results-of-the-hays-police-departments-sobriety-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=21639","title":{"rendered":"The Results of the Hays Police Department&#8217;s Sobriety Checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?attachment_id=21422\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21422\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21422\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Drunk-Driving-300x114.png?resize=300%2C114\" alt=\"Drunk Driving\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>This past Sunday August 23rd, officers of the Hays Police Department conducted a sobriety checkpoint in the 1000 block of Vine Street in accordance with the Kansas Department of Transportation \u201cImpaired Driving Deterrence Program\u201d. The checkpoint ran from approximately 12:30 AM to 02:30 AM.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the checkpoint was to improve the safety of our community by identifying impaired drivers and removing them from the roadway. As a result of the checkpoint, 79 vehicles were stopped, and 9 drivers were given on-site sobriety tests resulting in 2 DUI arrests. In addition to the 2 DUI arrests, there was 1 arrest for Possession of Hallucinogenic drug and Possession of Paraphernalia, and 1 arrest for Interference with a Law Enforcement Officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Hays Police Department would like to remind and encourage individuals who go out and drink to\u00a0have a Designated Driver or call Safe Ride at (785) 621-2580. \u00a0Safe Ride runs\u00a0Wednesday through Saturday from\u00a010 p.m. to 3 a.m.\u00a0to help you get home safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday August 23rd, officers of the Hays Police Department conducted a sobriety checkpoint in the 1000 block of Vine Street in accordance with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,11],"tags":[1523,106,2359,1611,1612,7441],"class_list":["post-21639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","category-news","tag-city-of-hays","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-hays-police-department","tag-kansas-department-of-transportation","tag-safe-ride","tag-impaired-driving-deterrence-program"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21642,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21639\/revisions\/21642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}