According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), it will not be conducting any DUI Checkpoints this upcoming holiday season.  It has instead decided to focus its efforts on DUI Saturation Patrols or Roving DUI Patrols looking for DUI drivers.  According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP), an increased number of officers will be on patrol looking for impaired drivers.  These saturation patrols will begin on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at about 6:00 p.m. and end on Sunday, January 4, 2009.

Other Orange County Law Enforcement agencies have indicated that they too will be conducting DUI saturation patrols during this holiday season in addition to those being conducted by the California Highway Patrol.  Such cities include, but are not limited to, the City of Garden Grove, Anaheim, Westminster and Placentia.  Other cities, like the City of Mission Viejo, have indicated that they will be conducting a DUI Checkpoint on Saturday, January 3, 2009.