The Houston Police Department launched a six-month campaign Wednesday to heighten patrols and DWI enforcement on area roadways.

Members of the Houston Police Department’s Traffic Enforcement Division announced the city-wide initiative during a press conference Wednesday, outside of the department’s Central Patrol Station. The campaign is a joint agency initiative with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, Crime Stoppers, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

The program is designed to reduce drunk driving accidents by heightening enforcement of drinking and driving offenses. The heightened enforcement will also be combined with public education. The HPD said it will deploy breath alcohol testing vehicles to various strategic locations around the city in an effort to catch suspected drunk drivers.

“We are going to send a couple on the south side and a couple on the north side every Week, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,” Assistant Chief Brian Lumpkin said. “We’re going to get out there and we’re going to find some of these drunks before they get into crashes.”

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