NOPD News

The NOPD’s Traffic Division will conduct a sobriety checkpoint in Orleans Parish between the hours of 9 p.m. on Thursday, September 8, 2022. through 5 a.m. on Friday, September 9, 2022.

During the Labor Day holiday, including the end of summertime and the busy Labor Day weekend, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is working alongside the law enforcement community in New Orleans to decrease impaired driving. 

The New Orleans Police Department’s Crime Lab Division has just trained five new Crime Scene Investigators. This three-week classroom training is comprehensive of crime scene processing and evidence collection. The investigators will now start their three-month field training.

This Independence Day holiday, the NOPD is participating in the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over impaired driving awareness campaign. The primary goal of the law enforcement presence will be to prevent the tragedies previously seen around the July 4th holiday. 

The NOPD Traffic Division will conduct sobriety checkpoints in Orleans Parish on Thursday, June 9, 2022, and on Thursday, June 23, 2022. The checkpoints will operate from 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 9, to 5 a.m. on Friday, June 10; and from 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, to 5 a.m. on Friday, June 24.