Police Shift Tactics Against Ohio DUI/OVI

Roving patrols allow police to cover larger area seeking drunk drivers in OH.

Law enforcement agencies across the state are regularly employing a different tactic in their pursuit of suspected drunk driving in Ohio. Police are utilizing saturation patrols, rather than sobriety checkpoints or speed traps, to target OH DUI. This past Fourth of July holiday saw just such plans put into effect by both state highway patrol and sheriff’s department troopers.

DUI checkpoints have been a common tool of law enforcement since being allowed by a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court decision. However, it is required by law that the location of such checkpoints be made public in order to balance constitutional rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Saturation patrols allow officers to cover a much larger area and to less obtrusively target locations with statistically higher numbers of arrests for driving under the influence on Ohio. In addition to searching for signs of impairment, the patrols use moving violations such as not wearing seatbelts, breaking traffic laws and failure to maintain proper speed to initiate a traffic stop.

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