St. Patrick's Day 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 on Tuesday March 17, 2015 for St. Patrick’s Day.  Deputies and Officers will be working the Highway 12 corridor from Sauk City to Lake Delton and the Highway 33 corridor from Baraboo to Reedsburg.   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.

In addition to this deployment, the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office will have extra Deputies on duty to combat drunk driving on March 13, March 14, March 20, and March 21.

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 Daniel Hardman             Lake Delton Police Department

Chief Jerry Strunz                   Sauk Prairie Police Department

Chief Tim Becker                     Reedsburg Police Department