Starke County Traffic Safety Partnership To Crack Down On Impaired Driving, Seat Belt Laws

The Starke County Traffic Safety Partnership will be working additional hours from now until Sept. 3 to enforce impaired driving and seat belt laws.

Officers from the Starke County Sheriff’s Department, and Hamlet, North Judson and Knox Police Departments will be looking for all traffic violations including seat belts, texting while driving, driving while intoxicated and more. Officers will be issuing traffic citations in an attempt to combat the growing number of traffic accidents in the county.

The Starke County Traffic Safety Partnership is working in conjunction with the state’s Operation Pullover Blitz 72.