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SFPD DUI SATURATION PATROL SET FOR SATURDAY, MAY 29, TO KICK OFF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

 Six San Francisco police motorcycle officers will hit the streets in search of impaired drivers at 7 p.m. Friday, May 28, to kick off the Memorial Day weekend. They will return to the police station at about 3 a.m.

A sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint is set for the same night.

“We are much more mobile than a police car and have a wider arc of vision,” said Sgt. Neil Swendsen of SFPD’s Traffic Company, who will command the team. “We can see a car weaving all over the road and more easily go out after it.”

Funding for Avoid the 8 was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.