State troopers to increase patrol over Christmas weekend
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – State troopers have announced they will beef up their patrols during the Christmas weekend.
The Sun Herald reports troopers will be participating in a traffic-safety enforcement campaign which starts 6 p.m. Wednesday and will last until midnight Sunday.
Mississippi Highway Patrol Capt. Johnny Poulos says troopers will be looking for speeding drivers and for those driving distracted. He says that everyone who rides in a vehicle needs to buckle up and make sure that everyone else in the vehicle buckles up, too.
Other law enforcement agencies participating in the nationwide “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign began their safety patrols last week. That campaign will run through Jan. 1.
