The Wentzville Police Department will be conducting a D.W.I. checkpoint on Saturday, June 13, 2015.
The checkpoint will be conducted with assistance from the Multi-Jurisdictional D.W.I. Task Force, to include the St. Charles County Police Department, St. Charles City Police Department, St. Peters Police Department, O’Fallon Police Department, Cottleville Police Department, Lake St. Louis Police Department, Wentzville Police Department, recruits enrolled at the Eastern Missouri Police Academy and the St. Charles County Department of Corrections.
This operation is funded through the existing MODOT Highway Safety Grants for D.W.I. Enforcement.
FOLLOW UP ON DWI CHECK POINT HELD JUNE 13th IN WENTZVILLE, MO
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (KMOV.com) – Sobriety checkpoints are often organized by DWI task forces to bust impaired drivers, but some critics allege the checkpoint in Wentzville on Saturday night may not have been completely legal.
In the past few years, challenges to sobriety checkpoints have reached the Supreme Court, leading to stricter guidelines which checkpoints must follow.
At Highway 61 on Saturday night, a task force comprised of six departments set up a sobriety checkpoint.
Stephen Daniels, who is a consultant for DWI cases and testifies as an expert witness, said police are required to publicize the time and location of sobriety checkpoints.
“I called six of them and I asked and inquired, ‘Where’s the location at?’ And, ‘What time?’ And nobody would give that information. I was told they don’t have to give me the location,” Daniels said.
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