Drunk Driving Deployment

News Release

Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister and the Sauk County Police Chiefs are announcing that the next Sauk County Alcohol Task Force deployment will be taking place Saturday January 17, 2015 in the Sauk Prairie area.   The grant is distributed by Wisconsin Bureau of Transportation Safety and will be used to reimburse participating agencies in overtime costs to put additional officers out on the streets to target specific areas for drunk driving enforcement.  The participating agencies in Sauk County are the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office, Baraboo Police Department, Lake Delton Police Department, Sauk Prairie Police Department, and the Reedsburg Police Department.  This grant will continue to run through September 2015.

During deployments each of these agencies will provide at least one officer and together they will conduct a high visibility traffic enforcement detail in the pre-designated area with an emphasis on drunk driving.

We encourage people to plan ahead for a safe ride home when consuming alcoholic beverages, not only on this date, but whenever they consume.  Barbuddies Boo in the Baraboo area can be reached at (608) 370-4354.  Sauk Prairie Barbuddies covers Sauk Prairie, Merrimac and the Leland/Denzer areas and can be requested by calling (608) 370-4300.  Local taxi cab service numbers are; Baraboo Transit 356-8300, Wisconsin Dells Taxi 253-7433, Kangaroo Taxi 432-4627, Sureway Taxi 253-2129, Reedsburg Cab 768-1144, and Sauk Prairie Transit (until 6pm) 644-9616.

Sheriff Chip Meister               Sauk County Sheriff’s Office

Chief Mark Schauf                  Baraboo Police Department

Chief Dan Hardman                Lake Delton Police Department

Chief Jerry Strunz                    Sauk Prairie Police Department

Chief Tim Becker                    Reedsburg Police Department