MIDDLETON–As part of state and national efforts to help keep roadways safe for all travelers, police officers with the City of Middleton, Village of Waunakee and Village of Shorewood Hills made 427 traffic stops during our OWI Traffic Grant between December 2021 and April 2022.
The departments have focused an additional 180 hours on OWI enforcement during this timeframe and officers made nine OWI arrests in the last five months during the deployments.
While the focus of the initiative was to deter impaired driving, officers also issued citations and made arrests during traffic stops for the following:
Eighty-eight speeding violations
Forty-three operating after revocation or suspension violations
Twenty-six vehicle registration violations
One vehicle equipment violations
Thirty-three other moving violations
Two safety belt violations
Threee drug arrests
One warrant arrest