Police increasing DUI checkpoints

Police will conduct islandwide DUI checkpoints throughout the holiday season. The effort is part of a national and statewide campaign called “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.” The campaign starts Friday and runs through Jan. 3.

Sgt. Robert Pauole, head of the Hawaii Police Department’s Traffic Services Section, said that drugs, or a combination of alcohol and drugs, have been factors in nearly 65 percent of the 17 traffic fatalities the island has experienced so far this year.